Because your evolutionary heritage tells you to. You're part of a social species, we're hardwired to be altruistic because it's helped us survive (some people's wiring is faulty).
Apparently there are people who receive monetary compensation for drawing comics. Some apparently can even do that as their main job. That's what I heard at least, they seem to be rare.
Out of date cache makes sense although I don't think I've seen any system app ever above 3 stars (that's why I even checked the Playstore page). Deleting the comment to not further propagate my false assumptions.
There's a difference between being "in on it" and "knowing how sth is going to go". Also, I don't know, I have no idea how the man thinks. But insinuating that the entire thing was staged by ALL participants working together, as this post seems to do (and I'm asking if that's the case), is a bold claim.
This stuff uses valuable energy, not just in the "reporting" but in that your brain needs to process the headline and blurb and evaluate its usefulness in order to filter it out from actual news. Not to mention it pushes out the actual news from your news feed.
Your mum is underwhelming.