But at least politicians have good sources of news right?

Not always unfortunately. The New York Times recently reported on several instances of members of the Trump transition team sharing or believing fake news stories. Team members such as Monica Crowley have accused Hillary Clinton of murdering a former party staffer while both incoming National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and his son who was fired from team Trump have both shared information about PizzaGate on social networks. Trump himself has shared false statistics about millions of illegal aliens voting.

And while the Clinton campaign has not been implicated in sharing fake news many voters on the left have pushed fabricated stories such as reports that Trump would ban Muslims from the military or that the Russians had rigged online polls in favor of the Republican candidate.

What is this PizzaGate thing we’ve been hearing about?

PizzaGate a bizarre and unsubstantiated online conspiracy theory that has become popular among critics of Hillary Clinton charges that high-ranking members of the Democratic party would regularly gather at the Comet a Washington D.C. pizzeria as part of an underground child-abuse ring. The rumors which gained steam on Internet message boards and were shared by fake news sites almost turned tragic when Edgar Welch an Internet conspiracy aficionado drove up from North Carolina to Washington with an assault rifle in order to “self-investigate” the reports he read online. While nobody was killed in the incident it clearly illustrated the dangers of fake news in the Internet age.

(Excerpted from Mishpacha, Issue 642)