What is Your Opinion on "Fake News"?

This is all from my opinion but I've done research on a few things as to what Trump calls fake news. From the way I research it, it seems like in Trump's opinion fake news is objective media where as real news (to Trump) is far right fringe websites and off facebook.

It sounds like I'm being sarcastic but I'm not. Even a Harvard study pointed out that far right fringe facebook posts got shared about 18 million times. This is far more than any actual news source.

What I find about Trump is that his use of fake news is more to convince people away from objective media and into the fringe because his rhetoric relies on those supporters.

[quote]After authorities arrested a handful of Donald Trump supporters for plotting to car-bomb Somali immigrants in Kansas in 2016, the defense attorney for one pointed to a novel defense for his client: fake news. Per the attorney, Patrick Stein – whose Facebook was littered with both fake stories and support for then-candidate Trump – was motivated to plan his slaughter because he thought then-President Barack Obama was on the brink of declaring martial law, misinformation he picked up from fake news sites.

Stein’s plot, of course, was foiled, but his case helps sum not only the threats posed by the spawn of fake news sites over the past few years, but the propensity for Trump supporters to find themselves consuming fake news sites at far higher clips than other demographics in the U.S.[/quote]

[quote]Moreover, according to the paper, nearly 60 percent of the total visits to fake news sites “came from the 10 percent of people with the most conservative online information diets” – with older Americans “much more likely to visit fake news” based on the variables examined in the paper. Such findings back up earlier research, including a 2017 fake news-related conference at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center that concluded that “misinformation is currently predominantly a pathology of the right.”[/quote]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-supporters-consumers-of-fake-news-c511ba18c1e0/