The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump has turned down the claims of Democrats that Hillary Clinton lost the November 8 election due to the epidemic of fake news in the run-up to Election Day.
Some Democrats, including President Barack Obama, have argued that the Democratic nominee lost the presidential election to Republican Trump because of the spread of fake news online against her.
For those on Clinton’s team who think it did, Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Trump, told Fox News on Friday morning that “a little self-awareness would do for a team that is blaming everybody but themselves for this.”
In a speech on Thursday at a ceremony for retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Clinton called on Congress to take action against the “epidemic of malicious fake news” that she said represents a “danger” to the “lives of ordinary people.”
“The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that…