Does fake news mislead the public?

I have no doubt about it that fake news misleads the public. I watched videos and read articles from The Onion, which is an entertainment newspaper that also has a website featuring satirical articles and videos writing about local, national, and international news. The Onion only has only one section in the newspaper which is described as a separate independent section called The A.V. Club. The A.V. Club is described as “non-satirical entertainment,” and reports on interviews and reviews on many new released media and weekly features. I read an article the other day that was a perfect example of why The Onion reports such satirical news. The article was called, “Easy wife gives it up on first date night.” Obviously from the title you could interpret the main idea of this article and how useless this type of news is being printed and shared across the world as “News.” Another disturbing article that I read and considered fake news was titled, “Second-Most Popular Kid in School Assumes Power Following Death of Star Quarterback.” I found this article very disturbing because despite the idea that the article was fake, it included the idea that because the star quarterback died unexpectedly, the next popular kid in line is in power of the high school now. The article also included fake names, fake photos, and a fake high school. Fake news reports like this shows that the public is being mislead by stories that aren’t true and basically written for their entertainment. The last example that I am going to use is a video clip of a story by The Onion which was entitled, “Obama releases 500,00 Men From U.S. Strategic Bachelor Reserve.” The main focus of this news report is that Obama is releasing 500,000 single men around the continental U.S. in order to satisfy the needs of women. This news report seemed real to me while I was watching it because they had President Obama on camera and speaking on behalf of this idea, but it is very fake news. In my opinion, newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle would not find any of the top reports from The Onion newsworthy and relevant to society. Therefore, I truly believe that because of the change of some media that went from substantial coverage straight to humor and entertainment, fake news is now misleading the public because they are either unaware of the reality or the media is either finding a way to manipulate ideas into the public and having them think for a second, “Is this news really true…….”