I agree its not a real map , they removed the 50 counties that voted the most in Clinton ' s favor and then referred to what was left as the heartland . As I said incredibly misleading but they did give that information in the original story , granted in a tiny misleading disclaimer but the point is if someone wanted to find out all the relevant information they could , it was just set up to make that as difficult as possible and in practice would have mislead a lot of people . So this is intentionally misleading news but not strictly fake . Who decides what is misleading enough to be classed as fake because that is how censorship starts ? If Breitbart are to be dismissed for intentionally misleading news , CNN ' s Chris Cuomo said this election it was illegal to read or store wikileaks emails during a broadcast , that was a blatantly fake statement meant solely to further an agenda , does that statement push CNN into the fake news bunch to ? I ' m not saying it should just that this already seems to be way more complicated than just we need to ban fake news sites .