Read Michael Gorman's answer to What started fake news? on Quora
The above article was written on the ‘Quora’ platform, and offers an insight into this very current topic, we need to be always vigilant and aware of the intentions behind all analysis, and News, nobody offers absolute objectivity, myself included, every piece of news we see on various media outlets is filled with the political biases of people; this is inevitable. Reporting is not like Mathematics, there are no ‘right answers’, there is of course accuracy in how events are described, and dates/timing, but beyond these items, all else is opinion and propaganda.