Fake news is not limited to America's administration. Social media websites, Facebook in particular, have been complicit in the use of fake news/information to generate enormous wealth for social media owners such as Mark Zuckerberg. Where on-line warnings about plagiarism once prevailed, now warnings about fake news are commonplace.
Many are disappointed to learn that the news they believe in is false, to the point of rejecting the truth because it disagrees with their preconceived opinions. Warnings about fake news, such as this, go unheeded:
http://libguides.pace.edu/fakenews