the rise in prominence of fake news is due to the gullibility of people; if it sounds good (plausible to their thinking or non-thinking), they will accept it as fact.  trumpy many times  resorted to fake news in his campaign and his uneducated and biased core support bought it hook line and sinker.  in order words, trumpy used deception to convince his supporter to believe in him and now it is showing that many of his promises are not being pursued.  he stole the election using dirty tricks.  but this is what he is a scammer and cheat.