How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down

I definitely am. Misinformation, propaganda, clickbait are all words with more specific semantics. Nothing incorrect about the term "fake news", just pretty information-sparse. It often ends up meaning "what I don't agree with, and wish to discredit with two words only"[1].

[1]: https://i.redd.it/8sf59bhhz5oz.jpg

‘rumor’ or ‘gossip’ it used to be

Well, it’s mentioned, what else are they going to do with it? It’s deserving of a story of its own, and people are writing those stories, but this particular story is about propaganda more broadly.

That's where I quit reading. "Fake news" indeed.

> "Later, it turned out that fake Facebook accounts linked to the Russian government helped to spread stories about Twin Falls and even organized one of the rallies there."

You should take this with a truckload of salt. There is zero mention of who exactly has "linked" what accounts to Russia, yet there have been repeated discredited claims that have shown that "suspicious" accounts are nothing more than people critical of Hillary Clinton and US imperialism in Syria.

Those seem to ignore a lot of important details in the story. No mention of the exaggerated and outright falsified accounts of the story? Nor the baseless conspiracy theories about the town and city council? All of which led to death threats to many involved?