Russia and the US are allies and both produce propaganda to propagate the myth they are not. It helps keep Americans unfocused. The anger (misplaced anger really) is used to divide the America people and help them forget about the banks that profited in the 2008 financial collapse and the massive war industry that requires endless conflicts in order to keep its masses employed:

http://fightthefuture.org/videos/does-voting-make-a-differen...

The CIA has admitted before congress that it places adverts in magazines and has refused to answer questions on whether or not they do so on TV as well.

I agree with you entirely. It's exactly like the WMDs. We are in an era where social media networks are talking about filtering out real/fake news. This should worry everyone. "Simply don't use Amazon/Google/Facebook" is less of an option when these industries as so big they control the distribution (and therefore the narrative). Who determines the algorithms on what is real and fake? (I hope it's not the people who created Postini/Google's spam algorithms with its insane false positive rate).

It's not limited to America. We don't live in the Iran/China/Saudi 1984 where governments actively censor content (and consequently, most of the citizens know they are being censored). We live in that other version where lies and facts are mixed into all of our news and content so it's impossible to tell what is real, and what is propaganda.