Intelligence and delusion

This article at slashdot showed up minutes after I discussed this matter and so I am way behind the curve here. Spammers are trying to convince people that WWIII has started in Iran. So how will people and nations know the truth when they see it, if the president can't figure it out with a trillion dollars a year in intelligence? News media publish fake reports and rarely check sources. It is a bag of manipulators and liars telling each other what the truth is and constantly getting caught by the old footage, open mikes, and live cameras. Why don't they just get off their high horses and admit that they swear like pirates when the mike is supposed to be off.