The irony is this story right here is most likely fake news.
It’s as if they woke up one day and realized “holy crap with wikileaks and all, everyone is going to see we’ve been doing nothing but fake news!”. So in response, they start calling everything ELSE “fake news”, so now when the claims are made everyone is confused and the average person doesn’t know what to believe. THen they MSM steps in and calmly says ‘This is why we’re here, let us sort it all out for you”. The MSM is terrified that social media and what they call the alt-right will render them obsolete a lot faster than they figured, and they see everything slipping away. So they do desperate things, like this.