John Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, served as counselor to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. President Trump’s fake-news pivot isn’t subtle. Trump is deploying a strategy, used by autocrats, designed to completely disorient public perception. These episodes distort our understanding of reality and put us in danger of experiencing an information void like Russia. They need to be aware that some of the information pumping through social media is indeed fake and sometimes malicious.

Source: Washington Post February 16, 2017 23:45 UTC