You can call it propaganda right away and the veil of truth will vanish immediately.
Digital news has increased the use of fake news and misinformation gets spread to the mainstream medias in no time.
People use this "technic" to blend out of reality something that they don't want to exist and you can kill yourself telling, no, that's not the way it happened, on the next occasion they will repeat the same statement.
Apparently it lies in the human nature that fake news receive more engagement than true stories. I only know that my recent artwork shown here, is not a fake one, but the illustration to this kind of intox.
"Fake news"
original art & motion by Werner Hornung
Don't believe everything you read