Over the last few months, we've talked about the weird obsession some people upset by the results of the election have had with the concept of "fake news." We warned that focusing on "fake news" as a problem was not just silly and pointless, but that it would quickly morph into calls for censorship. And, even worse, that censorship power would be in the hands of whoever got to define what "fake news" was.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @12:31AM
If it's published under a .ru or similarly obscure domain name for English language news about the US, then there's not much point in trying to stop that, people aren't going to give it any credibility given the degree to which the authorities in Russia control any sort of media there.