Others attribute the quote to a list as wide-ranging as Sir Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson and Ann Landers. Did fake news writers, profiteers and hoax artists manipulate the social media giants - Facebook, Twitter and Google (and users of those services) - to spread rumors that helped Donald Trump get elected as president? As such, do the social media behemoths bear some responsibility to fix this problem? The social media giants are now part of the news media whether they like it or not. “Some of this has to fall on the readers themselves,” Coler told NPR, when asked about the plague of bogus news he helped create.

Source: Forbes January 16, 2017 23:51 UTC