[The Urban Sombrero]

WW II: Nazi agents, to divide the French people, used propoganda leaving citizens uncertain about what to believe, or whether to believe anything at all.

In MEIN KAMPF, Hitler wrote that most people "are more easily victimized by a large than by a small lie, since they sometimes tell petty lies themselves but would be ashamed to tell big ones."

Archibald MacLeish, who worked under FDR, published a pamphlet entitled "Divide and Conquer," in which he explained how foreign agents weaken a nation's resolve by undermining confidence in institutions like elections and the press, and by raising fears of internal enemies, like immigrants, and, at that time, Jews.

Beyond all the jabbing and back and forth, and bigger than Clinton or Trump, Russian interferences in American elections and "Putin news" fooling the citizenry of America are serious business.