http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39085235
Several major broadcasters and newspapers have been banned from a press briefing hours after President Trump attacked the media stating that "Fake news" was the "enemy of the people". He has most commonly targeted CNN and the New York Times especially regarding the reports regarding his associated with Russian intelligent officials. ABC, Fox News, Breitbart News, Reuters and the Washington Times were allowed into the informal briefing. Mr Spicer warned that the White House is going to "aggressively push back false narratives" "New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet said it was the first time such an exclusion had happened in the newspaper's history."
O Mr Zuckerberg said more than 99 per cent of news shared on Facebook was verifiable, but acknowledged more could be done to flag fake stories which had been debunked.
O 75% of US adults believed fake news headlines they were shown during a Buzzfeed Investigation.
I think that the "false narrative" take on the reasons behind restricting the people who can come to the briefing is a cover story that ironically is speaking the truth on a level. Trumps cut don't on fake news seems to make him come across as someone who will not tolerate false facts however he himself has been known to share made up stories including the brave statement on under-reported terror attacks, where in most of the cases they were top stories for the appropriate amount of time. Some of the companies whom were not aloud to go to the briefing were ones who have actively written negatively of Trump and his associations with Russia, it isn't to far to suggest that he is beginning to refuse access to journalists who disagree and challenge him.
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