We think that fake news is an awful thing. It creates an atmosphere in which some dull people restate those pieces of "news" as fact.
It's like Mike Myers 1993 movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer," when, in a scene with his on-screen mother, his character, Charlie Mackenzie, asks her where she heard an outrageous story.
May Mackenzie: Charlie, hand me the paper.
Charlie Mackenzie: Mom, I find it interesting that you call The Weekly World News "the paper." A paper contains facts.
May Mackenzie: This newspaper contains facts.