I'm sure anyone who's been on this list for a long time has been exposed to situations being covered up in the news. News are businesses, need to keep themselves alive, and what people pay for, and the general climate of doing business, influences what they publish. In Occupy, it became blindingly obvious that some things didn't reach the news. This was so obvious that we had a number of groups across the country and the world organising around providing alternative news. In Occupy there were newsworthy stories streaming through the camps densely, but all the news would seem to report was that we were a bunch of illegal protesters who didn't seem to know what they were protesting. They would interview drunks and ignore our multiple daily open-to-the-public meetings. Then Trump happened. He talked about fake news. He hurt people. I heard he had it hard as a kid and learned to rise to the top. Trump was an obvious, ridiculous cover-up, that is still begging for its own people to realise it and save it. His platform was high-tech news. I would see him giving different political platforms to different social groups, micro-managing the local media. It's strange to have someone call the mainstream media fake news, when every channel in the mainstream media has them on it. I was in Vermont during the primaries, bernie senders' state. I quite literally flipped every channel, and none of them had bernie on it. I tried this for weeks. The best I could find was quotes of bernie repeated by trump in order to disrepute him. I honestly to this day have never heard Bernie Sanders speak. It's hard to judge who to vote for in such a situation. I voted a third party like most hopeful jaded people do. I'm sure others had different experiences. But maybe I'm not sure. Did anyone see bernie sanders say anything on television during the primaries? Anyway. Trump's people kept saying to use these other well-financed outlets instead of the fake mainstream ones, which is ridiculous. I can guess that they didn't understand how few people were able to act on the fake news expression. Occupy was big, but it was also heavily and overtly disrupted, and its disruption then covered up. The people who did Occupy are homeless and/or doing other things. I'm sad to report that many have gotten business jobs to stay safe. Occupy was not some huge moneybags investor -- it was the people of the streets, the churches, and various other activist efforts working together across the world. We don't know how to spawn a media effort. We got lucky, and worked together like you can't imagine, surviving solely off donations by visitors, for months and months. But now everybody sees. Everybody in the world saw trump's group splat the world with how ridiculous the political power is. It's obvious trump knows how ridiculous it is, but now everyone seems to have believed his malarky, which is terrifying. And a lot of people got hurt. Many of them people Occupy was trying to protect from existing harm. Oh, and we have AI now, can anybody actually use it? Or is it just like a scary mask on the wall? Biden now is gently pretending to be a normal stooge, not an exotic one. I'm sure both trump and biden pull their best strings to do what's right. It's hard to learn what those strings are when your media is telling you that everything is "evil", whatever that word means.