To that end, Facebook offers guidelines on the kind of content publishers should and shouldn't post, although the social media giant's efforts to shake up the News Feed can sometimes inadvertently lead to
a further spread of fake news.
In addition to
spreading fake news, Russian Facebook accounts went one step
further by organizing events, rallies, and protests, some
of which galvanized dozens
of people.
The president himself has been a longtime supporter
of conspiracy theories often espoused by Alex Jones on InfoWars, a
far - right website that deliberately
spreads propaganda and disinformation masked as real
news, or as the president would actually call it,
fake news.