Tyranny Of The Majority Analysis

Earlier this year, we studied how the Constitution was formed and the interests it sought to protect. The founders identified “tyranny of the majority” as an inherent danger of a “majority rule” democracy. Through a separation of power into three branches, the Constitution attempted to assure that an imperfect majority that ignored the needs of a minority and exercised poor judgment, would not be able to hijack the government. Democracy partially relies on people being well informed, when people blindly listen to misinformation a democracy will not succeed.
This New York Times article involved a man who drove six hours form North Carolina to stop an alleged sex-slave child-abuse ring run by Hillary Clinton out of a Washington D.C. pizzeria,

“Pizza-gate”. The individual fired shots from his riffle in the pizzeria based on fake news stories on the internet. Despite the many reputable news sources that debunked Pizzagate as fake, the popularity of the false story persisted and grew. The article states: “Debunking false news articles can sometimes stoke the outrage of the believers, leading fake news purveyors to feed that appetite with more misinformation.”

Do you think the public’s receptivity to “fake news” is one type of “tyranny of the majority” (a public that eagerly consumes mis-information) that the Constitution tried to guard against?
Assuming an increased reception to “fake news”, how do you think the Constitution can succeed in its mission?
Does our internet dependence increase or decrease the likelihood of media illiteracy?
Should schools teach “internet literacy?”