The whole deal about False News is one thing ....the Times did an expose a couple days ago...on the podcast Keepin 1600 it was noted that several cycles ago there were the usual main news sources...that White House staff, the media and the public trusted ...these sources were reasonably responsible about fact checking and did a lot of it during campaigns for obvious reasons....

NOW there are vastly more news"sources" everything from hackers in Eastern Europe to local jerks and not only that but the supposedly reputable news media did NOT fact check Trump during the primary's much at all and only got around to it in the general...sort of...will doubtless do much mea Culpas, in time. 

I think it was a money deal where Trump was a great Advertizing revenue source!

The price we will pay for this is incredibly high....it has rewarded the bigoted....