This title is misleading. The article doesn't really go into how the "problem was solved," and despite the title's implication, there's zero analysis of how the

This title is misleading. The article doesn't really go into how the "problem was solved," and despite the title's implication, there's zero analysis of how the lessons from the past might help us today. It just states that after president McKinley was assassinated, the two men who were largely responsible for the rise of yellow journalism had a change of heart. That's not a "solution" in any sense of the word, nor is it applicable today, as there are not two individual men battling for newspaper sales. Rupert and his son Lachlan Murdoch are semi-comparable media barons, but much of the modern misinformation/disinformation is backed by adversarial states, and decentralized.