There is an interesting article in the NY Times today looking at how the #PizzaGate fake news story developed [1]. It was quite surprising to me how flimsy the "evidence" was, yet it convinced a lot of people. I had assumed that the people making this thing up had put some effort into making it believable, but no. I am at a loss now to understand how anyone could have believed that anything was going on at that pizza place.

This has serious implications. I don't think that people re going to limit their inability to recognize such fake things to stories about politicians they dislike. They will fall for equally ridiculous stories about medicine nd science. That is very bad.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/10/business/media...