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    Q&A: Some real facts about fake news and its influence on US elections

    by Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times Mar 20, 2019 5 minutes

    With another presidential election around the corner, a question from the last still lingers: Did fake news help Donald Trump beat Hilary Clinton in the race for the White House?

    It depends on whom you ask, and how you define "fake news." Donald Trump, for example, tends to lob the term at mainstream media outlets when he doesn't like what they report. And in everyday jargon, it's become a commonplace phrase to refer to conspiracy theories and wrongful speculation.

    Researchers who have been studying the 2016 election consider fake news to be any piece of misinformation intended to sway and confuse the public. It often spreads via websites designed to help misinformation circulate as widely as possible.

    So far, researchers have found that fake news is not as influential as they had feared. To the extent it is mistaken for actual news, the people

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