The authors missed the most important point of all.

Make more of an effort to teach critical thinking skills from grade school right through to post-secondary, and present alternative points of view in an impartial manner.  While no fan of Scheer -- and without really knowing what his talking point will mean -- I am glad to hear that someone is trying to get universities to quit muzzling free speech.  And Wente's column on white privilege shows that such education in the lower grades may be a little one-sided, since prejudice and a sense of entitlement are not unique to those of Western descent.

Fake news is not so very difficult to spot for those that have some intellectual capacity and the ability to analyse.  But it will continue to proliferate and perhaps evolve, since traditional journalistic outlets are experiencing plummeting revenue.