Saudis’ Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider

From the article: "The vigorous push also appears to include the grooming — not previously reported — of a Saudi employee at Twitter whom Western intelligence officials suspected of spying on user accounts to help the Saudi leadership."

Seems like potentially a big deal.

You would think this would be a huge problem for the "fake news" crowd. This is a government attacking the image of a person that criticizes, not government policies, but the attitudes and character of people in government.

And if the Saudis are doing it, well, they're not known for innovation. This means

1) governments are doing this

2) they're "putting their own version of reality" forward. In other words: fake news.

3) ... when they're not doing it to just protect the personal public image of important politicians

That does mean that fake news ... just cannot be policed by governments. Those simply want their own, equally fake, version of reality given precedence.

A cynic might say that's exactly why we have the fake news debacle in the first place. That the main problem anti-"fake news" efforts are fighting is not the fake part of the news, but that real news was actually available, even if not easily, at all.