Donald Trump is correct. Fake news abounds; it’s one of the few commodities which has been and likely will never be in short supply
From McCarthyism to weapons of mass destruction to Rush Limbaugh, fake news beats us over the head every single day. Alex Jones’s Media Wars, QAnon lead the pack with their child trafficking via their Wayfair and Pizzagate wild-eyed hogwash.
You can read about these debunked stories HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Sadly, our president, that “very stable genius,” has dutifully re-tweeted every one of those conspiracy stories—along with others that question Barack Obama’s birthplace, claim that Obama bugged Trump’s campaign, that Joe Scarborough murdered an aide, that Ted Cruz’s father was somehow linked to the JFK assassination, that windmills cause cancer, that the coronavirus is a “hoax” perpetrated by Democrats and/or China to lessen his reelection chances, and any other bizarre crap he could imagine in his sick, demented mind.
And while he gives credence to these absurdly-contrived fantasies of the right-wing extremists, he is just as quick, or quicker, to label news stories from such sources as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, or other legitimate news services, i.e. “lamestream media” as “fake news.’ And of course, he is, by his own humble admission, smarter than all our intelligence agencies and general combined.
He continues to invoke the “fake news” mantra because it’s a convenient dog whistle to his shrinking base that hangs onto every word as though he was some kind of latter-day savior of mankind.
But there is another “news service” that pops up in my email inbox daily that, while flying under the radar, is nevertheless comical in its own ham-handed way of reporting news intended as favorable to the Tangerine Toddler. I say “a” news service, though there actually are two but they are so near in content and appearance they sometimes seem to be one and the same.
The first is an outfit called Patriot Powered News run by some outfit called JKW Enterprises of Moore, Oklahoma.
One of its dispatches features a headline that says “You Won’t Believe Who’s Calling Obama the Greatest President Ever.” Click on that heading and you’re taken to a one-question “poll” that asks, “Would you vote for a Barack Obama 3rd term?” and then gives you two choices:
Yes – Barack Obama is a great president and better than the choices we had in 2016, or
No – He was a terrible president and I am happy he is no longer in office.
No third choice like, for instance, “No, I don’t believe a president should serve more than two terms, or a fourth choice that says, “No, the 22nd Amendment put a limit on how many times a person could be elected president.
Another features this headline: Michelle Finally Snaps: Melania Sent Her Over the ‘Edge.’
But when you click on the headline, you’re taken to a page that’s nothing more than an INFOMERCIAL disguised as a news story hyping some kind of skin care treatment that is supposed to make you “look two decades younger.” It even comes complete with “Before” and “After” photos of Melania.
Some news story.
The other so-called news service, which also is heavily pro-Trump, is little more than an advertising medium for such products as an “Ancient Japanese tonic to melt 3 pounds every 3-5 days,” or a “cheap air cooler (that) takes United States by storm,” or Dr. Ben Carson’s “over the counter memory drug.
That news page also has a headline that hypes a “CBS breaking news story” headlined, “Dr. Phil mourns after tragic news…” but when you click on that headline, you are taken to a story about a “revolutionary product” released by Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz that’s “causing outburst in the health community. And what is this “revolutionary product?”
CBD. Cannabinoid oil.
I guess truth is where you find it, folks, sort of like beauty being in the eye of the beholder.
So, with all disrespect to Alex Jones, QAnon, Limbaugh and Patriot Powered News, I’ll just stick with the lamestream media for my news because as opposed to those just cited, sometimes they get it right.
After all, it was Trump himself who recently said, “What do we have to lose?”
Louisiana Voice 
ALTERNATIVE FUELS not ALTERNATIVE FACTS.
It’s “1984” and we’re living in a “brave new world”.
While there is proof some posters here indeed follow the kind of sources you cite, I am as concerned with those who follow no media at all, but rather talk among themselves, making up things as they go along to suit what they want to believe and reinforcing others who do likewise – the stuff of which myths are made – In other words, people who are willfully ignorant and don’t want their ignorance challenged.
… or worse, they get the bulk of their news from social media. I just had a family member explain how they were careful to fact check information they were getting from Facebook, as I was trying to explain that it was all false. Social Media = the home of fake news/memes.
tRump has spewed over 20,000 documented lies. His supporters obviously believe them. Easier to just accept them than than cross check them all. Besides, those lies are what they want to hear. And being the con man he is, he knows it. They have no interest in the truth. Ignorance is bliss to them.