During the run-up to the presidential election, fake news really took off. "It was just anybody with a blog can get on there and find a big, huge Facebook group of kind of rabid Trump supporters just waiting to eat up this red meat that they're about to get served," Coler says. "It caused an explosion in the number of sites. I mean, my gosh, the number of just fake accounts on Facebook exploded during the Trump election."Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals — but they just never take the bait.
Although to be fair, it can happen on more left-leaning issues too.
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user-inactivated: Take this with a grain of salt. NPR was right there with the NY Times, Politifact, and CNN spreading Clinton campaign propaganda (or as everyone is calling it now, "fake news") against Bernie and later Donald. They are a biased source.