How, either you trust someone or you don't, right? How can someone with compromised trust be trusted to report "real" news? And either way, you said that
they fell for that hook, line and sinker, giving public support to the removal of first amendment rights
which seems like "because if they didn't support it they wouldn't have been signed into law"
but we know that nobody went to publicly support the government in taking away their freedom of speech, and if they did, it wasn't because they were convinced with fake news by knowing what isn't fake news (the cia saying it's the russians?).