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Pope Francis seems to be something of a political gadfly. Having broken with tradition and endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in October 2015, he turned around and endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump in July 2016 and then immediately reversed himself yet again and endorsed Trump's rival in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton: What's going on? Is the Holy Father having a difficult time making up his mind whom he'd most like to see move into the White House come 2017? What's going on is that fake news perpetrators tend to be a rather unimaginative lot, using the same story templates over and over again and simply changing a few of the details. So they steal from each other and borrow from themselves in their quest to generate advertising revenue from fabricated clickbait news stories while putting in as little actual work as possible. So presto, the Internet gets multiple versions of the same false story about a pontiff's publicly announcing his presidential preference. In this case the offender is the nascent KYPO 6 News, one of a series of fake news sites with common ownership that attempt to lure readers by masquerading as the online arm of local television news outlets:
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