The 'Exposing Fake News' Starter pack Becoming very familiar with this information can help you in a debate situation with a sleeping normie... It may have began sooner, but the weaponization of fake news here in the US was crystallized in its being back in the early 1950's with the implementation of the CIA Operation Mockingbird.   summary link:  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-28/newly-declassified-documents-show-senior-cia-agent-and-deputy-director-directorate-i Later this tactic would be given a steroid boost of hundreds of millions of Taxpayer dollars and deployed across the internet through social media platforms, online news papers, blogs, and even paid commenters. It was initially added to the 2013 NDAA signed by Hussein in the late hours of New Years Eve. Later it was galvanized into law in the NDAA of 2017 signed into law, again by Hussein, in his last days as President. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-24/obama-signs-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act-law “We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”  ― David Rockefeller Comment with an example of Fake News