I thought this was a great example of persistent fake news:
So United prevents some girls from boarding a flight because they were wearing leggings and they were deemed not appropriately dressed. Pinhead Shannon Watts is there to see it and starts tweeting about United discriminating against women. Okay, fair enough initially, because I've seen lots of women with leggings on flights, and certainly seen both men and women dressed way less appropriately.
However, United caught wind of the incident almost immediately and responded that the girls were flying for free under the employee program and that the program has a dress code, which prohibits leggings. They clearly stated that they don't prevent paying customers from wearing them.
Even after this announcement, which is showing up everywhere, including them responding to the original troublemaker, Watts, celebrities and others are still pushing the "discrimination" story, often not mentioning at all that they were employee tickets, or in the case of the Washington Post, going on a biased run (biased against United) for like 90% of the story, then near the end having a line about the girls using the employee program.
Anyway, thought it was a good example about how fake news just keeps on going because of Twitter and the like. Not to mention things like the WaPo's crappy reporting.
http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/03/26/sarah-silverman-andy-richter-and-other-celebrities-are-still-crapping-on-united-over-leggingsgate/