“How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down : At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.” (NYT Magazine 9/26/17) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/magazine/how-fake-news-turned-a-small-town-upside-down.html
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices – to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill – and suspicion can destroy – and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own – for the children – and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is – that these things cannot be confined – to the Twilight Zone.”
Epilogue, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, episode 22 in the first season of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The episode was written by Rod Serling, the creator-narrator of the series and originally aired on March 4, 1960 on CBS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street
Footnote: “Falsely accused of satanic horrors, a Texas couple spent 21 years in prison. Now they’re owed millions.” http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/25/dan-fran-keller-satanic-rituals-sexual-abuse-children-falsely-accused/ “Long before the age of the Internet and the fleeting spasms of mass hysteria that came with it (Remember Jade Helm? Pizzagate?), and going back to the late 20th century, when irrational fears moved slower and lasted longer, there was Satan.”
“How to Spot Fake News” (FactCheck.org, A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center) http://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/how-to-spot-fake-news/
“National Public Radio tweeted out the Declaration of Independence on Tuesday to mark the July Fourth holiday, but not everyone understood what it was doing.
Some supporters of President Donald Trump didn’t recognize one of the nation’s founding documents and accused the broadcaster of inciting violence and even revolution. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/npr-declaration-of-independence_us_595c6525e4b0da2c7325bd50 See also http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/05/declaration-independence-tweets-confuse-donald-trump-supporters/
“How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down : At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.” (NYT Magazine 9/26/17) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/magazine/how-fake-news-turned-a-small-town-upside-down.html
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices – to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill – and suspicion can destroy – and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own – for the children – and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is – that these things cannot be confined – to the Twilight Zone.”
Epilogue, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, episode 22 in the first season of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The episode was written by Rod Serling, the creator-narrator of the series and originally aired on March 4, 1960 on CBS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street
Footnote: “Falsely accused of satanic horrors, a Texas couple spent 21 years in prison. Now they’re owed millions.” http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/25/dan-fran-keller-satanic-rituals-sexual-abuse-children-falsely-accused/ “Long before the age of the Internet and the fleeting spasms of mass hysteria that came with it (Remember Jade Helm? Pizzagate?), and going back to the late 20th century, when irrational fears moved slower and lasted longer, there was Satan.”
Fox News sued by parents of Seth Rich, slain DNC staffer, over conspiracy theory about his death http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-seth-rich-fox-news-20180314-story.html