Great information! This so called 'fake news' is also a mechanism to confuse and control the masses. Recently in India, more than 30 peoples were killed in different incidents, within a month by spreading rumors on Whatsapp. Some anti social elements spread a news on Whatsapp that gangs of child abductors were working in particular areas. It warned people against strangers and outsiders. Mob lynched more than 30 innocent persons in different part of the country mere on suspicion. Before that other rumors spread in social media which also took innocent lives.
Is this being done intentionally? Isn't it reminds of Hollywood movies 'Kingsmen Secret Service' and 'Resident Evil series'? Is this being done deliberately so that people start killing each other and they may not head towards the action of the government? Is this not a start of zombie apocalypse?
On one hand fake news is spreading freely while voices of the truth are being gagged. In the name of fighting against fake news, governments are working towards controlling the news which can be uncomfortable for their masters. First they create terrorists and then in the name of fighting against them, they make draconian laws which are used against opposition. Similarly, fake news are created and in the name of controlling them, a censorship is imposed. This is the reality of present day fake capitalistic demo(n)cracies.