There has been a massive change in technology in the past ten years. Now anyone can make a website, or a blog. Now that anyone can do it, we have had a huge shift from responsible companies producing news to random people making opinion sites that look like news. Such websites do not present the news, but instead post heavily biased opinions. Add in Facebook and Twitter and other social media platforms and facts are lost and lies spread like wildfire.
Don't believe me? Meet my fake website, The Patriot Newsletter:
Patriot Newsletter – Making America Great Again! and the Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Patriot-New...6569618527827/.
With zero money invested and very (very) little effort on my part, I have readers and hundreds of Facebook likes. I am writing pure bullshit, and people believe it.
Our president is telling us there is a national emergency on our border. And people are believing this. People believe bullshit.
Some where along the line we need to find a balance between freedom of speech and spreading bullshit.