Fake News Is Television's Favorite New Storyline
This article contains spoilers through the most recent episodes of Homeland and Quantico, as well as recent episodes of The Good Fight.
On the most recent episode of , Max (Maury Sterling) made a discovery that pulled all the manifold villains of the sixth season together when he witnessed the CIA’s Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) meet with Brett O’Keefe (Jake Weber), a garrulous online broadcaster of conspiracy theories. With this sighting, it became clear that O’Keefe’s alternative-media platform was linked to a huge underground network using sock puppets—thousands of fake social-media accounts run by professionals—to propagate misinformation throughout the U.S., particularly stories that oppose the president-elect, Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel). And Dar Adal, long ’s most untrustworthy civil servant, was overseeing it all, breaking numerous federal laws in the
