Who gets to decide what's fake news?
Apparently, the German Government. A much smarter move would be to create a public/private accreditation body that simply rated articles on their truthfulness. In turn, media sources would have overall ratings based on the average. It's not perfect, but it's far better than trying to enforce journalistic integrity though the legal system. That's obviously a recipe for disaster.
Who cares? The simplest fact-checking can prove any news story as plausible or bullshit. It's Journalism 101. The thing that first year J-school students do as an internship for the New York Times, or whoever the Newspaper happens to be in their town.
Right. Because Angela Merkel will be involved in some practical way in tagging fake news sites. Seriously, man. You can do better than that. Fact-checking is a well-defined and understood skill set that is simply being applied to new medium that desperately needs it. This isn't hard, technologically, logically, ideologically, manpower-wise, or in any other way. (Shit, let's just flip the problem around and create a Verified tag, like Verisign did. That's a 20-year old solution that still works today.)
The six mega corps that control the news you see and hear. Don't want anyone off message after all.