OK here's a "fact" for you:

In his tell-all book Trust Me: I’m Lying, Media Manipulator Ryan Holiday writes:

“I’m paid to deceive. My job is to lie to the media so they can lie to you. I cheat, bribe, and connive...I orchestrate these deceptions for...high-profile clients... I create and shape the news for them. Usually it’s a simple hustle. Someone pays me, I manufacture a story for them, and we trade it up the chain – from a tiny blog...to cable news and back again, until the unreal becomes real.

I am a born skeptic and worked in IT long enough to know how easy this is to do and how often it is done. Believe whatever you want but remember it is just your interpretation of what you choose to believe and not necessarily the absolute truth.