Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called "fake news" a danger that must be addressed quickly, in a rare public appearance on Thursday, a month after she lost the presidential election in a campaign marked by a flood of such propaganda. "The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year...
It's now clear that so-called 'fake news' can have real-world consequences." Clinton herself has been a target of fake news, with postings claiming that a pizza restaurant in Washington was fronting a child sex ring run by Clinton.
