I remember my faculty colleague tackling fake news in the political context using machine learning back in 2008 and he was worried that this could be the next i

I remember my faculty colleague tackling fake news in the political context using machine learning back in 2008 and he was worried that this could be the next iteration of "digital wars" that could distrupt economies. We all shrugged it off because we didn't believed that people could be so easily manipulated as to "believe everything they saw on the Internet". Yeah...