I thought it was a group of kids in Macedonia who discovered a new way to make a few dollars? Was Brexit and Trump also a part of this deliberate attempt? What has materialised is Merkel and Obama have made themselves unelectable, so in hindsight if it was actually them who were behind all the fake news, it wasn't the best of ideas
This is a good read, if only for the comments. It will sum up nicely what is really going on
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ocial-networks