Not fake per se but it is sensationalized hype.
BTW, Authorities warn you not to use the faucets in your house as they have been known to release large quantites of dihydrogen monoxide. The sky is falling! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!
As a pilot and flight instructor myself I can tell you that it is true that sUAS are ever increasing in prevalence - so much so that I recall flying out in the San Francisco Bay area last fall and during a preflight weather briefing, the briefer flat out told me "Be advised: Multiple UAS activity at or below 400 ft AGL." They are being flown out there and all over the place.
As for a menace, Chicken Little? Not really. It's true, as I posted in my thread about why people hate drones, that a handful of people misuse the things like this little creep did, intentionally filming a jetliner with a drone on short final for KLAS.
Now taken by a media now run as for profit by the corporate entities which own it, this quickly leads to sensationalism. I especially like how the story cuts over to ISIS using an UAV to drop bombs, implying that drones will attack you from above just after your done fretting about booking a ticket on a Boeing 737 or calming down after your outrage over a ( Mod Removed Political statement ) made. The media knows that it sells and that, as a reporter, if you get those ratings, its a means of advancement and they do it every time.
It's not just drones. It's anything else that scares people or makes them react in the unending outrage culture. Hurricane coming? Find the biggest idiot in the newsroom, get him in a rain slicker, plant him in the direct path of the eyewall, and have him file a stupid report while he's trying to brace himself against 130 mph winds. Is it August and a slow news week? Find a shark attack and plaster it on the news. Stocks drop? Get a stupid photo of the Wall Street trader looking at the big board with a anxious expression. Foreign conflicts? Get out the stock footage of the F-14 launching form the aircraft carrier. Then cut to soldier dad coming home to see his daughter after six months to a story about how the Dutchess of Winsor is pregnant to a report on how cell phones may cause psychosis to a story about that stupid Spanish tomato fight. This is why people hate the media so much.
So now its drones - DRONES - are going to be flown into airplanes or ISIS will bomb us with them, only to be forgotten when a psychopath marches into a school with an AR-15 and kills 5 people before being shot by the cops.
It never ends........