Honestly, the age of the Fake News Meme is over, and got replaced by the Memetic age. (Due to Moore's Law, electronic ages get shorter, and shorter.) The Flat Earth Society started out as a Fake News joke. Seriously, nobody took it seriously, until the single issue wonks got ahold of it, long after those of us that got the joke wandered off to check our Myspace (Or Sykospark, and Subcultures.net in my case.)
Enter the memetic age, which ironically, there's no Memes about, because people don't realize that it's short for memetic, and #Hashtags are Memes. Just like Image Macros, which we stopped calling that, when people mistook them for memes.
Then, over a decade later, Faux Noobs decided to stop saying "Mainstream Media," and thought they coined the term "Fake News." then again, they're still trying to beat Social Media with basic cable, so yeah. They're retarded, or the politically Correct term: "Conservative."
Kinda like how Walmart canted the "Have a Nice Day" smiley 72 degrees,
and Trademarked it. Before the internet, the only way we had to spread memes was bumper stickers, and teeshirts. (Okay, and Logos.)