There are two kinds of news. Organic news is something like when a car hits a truck. There are details to be reported, and it is hard to fake. These events are normally reported accurately.
Synthetic news is manufactured news and it is agenda driven news. A recent example is when some kid recently gave a Nazi salute in a hotel in Washington, and President Elect Trump did not disavow the kids action quickly enough for the agenda driven media, so therefore Trump and all of Trumps people are supportive of white nationalism. This story actually dominated the CNN news day just a couple of days ago.
By their shear volume of reporting, and their agenda driven news practices, the left owns the fake news industry. They practice it daily, just listen to NPR or watch CNN, if you can.
Fake news is a leftist problem.
NPR, to their credit, did an HONEST interview with a major “fake news” player. This guy operates dozens of phony web pages, and has dozens of writers coming up with false stories, pretending to be news.
The 40 year old, was a Democrat Hillary supporter, who fell into the job, when he was searching for a way to make money off of (in his characterization) gullible Trump supporters. His formula, was to find a narrative that plays into the bias of Trump supporters and then tell outrageous lies on that theme. His biggest hit, was the story that an FBI agent looking into emails was found murdered. He seemed to have some ethical recriminations, but he said “liberals are too smart to fall for fake news stories.”
As you know, google has pay per click ad revenue models, that helped to make this guy rich. He will continue to generate fake stories, because if he does not, someone else will.