How to avoid fake news: Stop getting your news from Facebook, that's how

Ah, the “fake news” problem.

Yes, we laugh now, but before the term was embraced by President Trump, fake news was already a real problem. Not because people were spreading slight errors due to honest (or even dishonest) reporting mistakes. Not even because of tendentious, opinionated takes on the news produced by partisans on all sides. Rather, fake news became a thing because during last year’s election there were many, many outlets created online for the sole purpose of spreading actually fake, completely false news stories over the Internet, with the explicit idea of deceiving people.