I actually believe that the "fake news" narrative was concocted by Clinton-friendly media (and/or deep state) to counter what was coming out of WikiLeaks. They had no intention of reporting anything from WikiLeaks so they were desperately hoping to discredit and scare people away from damning things that they may have seen through Facebook, Twitter or other non-globalist media. It just so happens that "spirit cooking" and "pizzagate" were the major things to come out of the Podesta emails at that time.