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:::The fact [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts McCain actively promoted the Trump-Russia scam] to cover his [[Obama_war_crimes#February_2012|own collusion with Hillary/Obama in creating and funding]] of the [[Islamic State]], and abort the honeymoon of Trump's first 100 days, is enough to discredit anything the man says. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 14:54, 27 June 2017 (EDT)
:::The fact [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts McCain actively promoted the Trump-Russia scam] to cover his [[Obama_war_crimes#February_2012|own collusion with Hillary/Obama in creating and funding]] of the [[Islamic State]], and abort the honeymoon of Trump's first 100 days, is enough to discredit anything the man says. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 14:54, 27 June 2017 (EDT)
Let's stop putting words into each other's mouths. The fundamental problem with the "fake news" article is that we do not agree on the definition of "fake news." I believe that it involves a deliberate attempt to misinform (although some innocent people are tricked into spreading it in good faith on social media.) When a newspaper has a typographical error (printing 1907 instead of 1997 or misspelling someones name), that is '''not''' fake news. The top of the article should remove that. Second, although there have been false political rumors and "National Enquirer" stories about UFOs for a long time, that is not a part of the "fake news" phenominon. We are just confusing the reader by adding the discussion of the National Enquirer. Here are some examples, can we agree on whether or not they are "fake news":
*Example #1: When Chester A. Arthur was nominated for vice president in 1880, a political opponent, Arthur P. Hinman, initially speculated that Arthur was born in Ireland and did not come to the United States until he was fourteen years old and was ineligible to run. When Hinman's original story did not take root, he spread a new rumor that Arthur was born in Canada. This claim, too, failed to gain credence.
*Example #2: There are rumors that Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, was born out of wedlock.
*Example #3: In 1791, Jefferson and Madison moved to Philadelphia and founded the ''National Gazette'' in an effort to counter Hamilton's Federalist policies, which Hamilton was promoting through the influential Federalist newspaper the ''Gazette of the United States''.
*Example #4: Four Trump golf courses displayed framed copies of a Time Magazine cover with Donald Trump's picture on the cover. However, it is a fake cover and Trump's photo was not on that issue.[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/fake-time-magazine-covers-hang-trump-golf-courses-article-1.3282371][http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/trumps-golf-courses-displayed-fake-time-magazine-cover-w490071][[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 12:05, 28 June 2017 (EDT)