https://www.npr.org/2018/04/27/606393983/
wikipedia-founder-says-internet-users-are-adrift-in-the-fake-news-era
"At any given moment, volunteers and paid workers are writing fictional narratives that they present online as news stories, and some of those will get picked up and shared — perhaps thousands of times — on social media.
Hoaxes are presented as fact, conspiracy theories are offered as truth, and some of them may even end up on Wikipedia, one of the most-visited sites online.