Thomas Jefferson on Fake News:

(28 January 1786)
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." 

(January 16, 1787)
"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, 
the very first object should be to keep that right; 
and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, 
or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. 
But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them."

(June 11, 1807)
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. 
Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. 
The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in 
situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day... 
I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; 
inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors."