Ciaran Jenkins: 'Herd mentality.' 

'We'd be naive, I think, if we didn't think that these sorts of things were also happening within our own democratic systems. What the two stories I did have in common is they showed the mechanisms by which it is possible to undermine the general public's faith in facts and truth and reality. I think the question that we have to ask always with fake news is: who gains, who benefits when people's relationship with the truth is so fundamentally undermined?'