FAKE NEWS Definition & Meaning

fake news

[ feyk nooz, nyooz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

false news stories, often of a sensational nature, created to be widely shared or distributed for the purpose of generating revenue, or promoting or discrediting a public figure, political movement, company, etc.:
It’s impossible to avoid clickbait and fake news on social media.
a parody that presents current events or other news topics for humorous effect in an obviously satirical imitation of journalism:
The website publishes fake news that is hilarious and surprisingly insightful.
Sometimes Facetious. (used as a conversational tactic to dispute or discredit information that is perceived as hostile or unflattering):
The senator insisted that recent polls forecasting an election loss were just fake news.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of fake news¹

First recorded in 1800–20 in the sense “false news, spurious news”; the current sense was first recorded in 2010–15

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The media, of course, was still “fake news” and the Democrats were still crazy leftists while the judiciary was incompetent and partisan.

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"We are enmeshed in an era of 'fake news' and disinformation, where matters of trust are at the forefront of editors' minds," he tells the BBC.

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"Publishing fake news to purposefully trick readers and then saying it's all a joke doesn't really work well when you spend the rest of the year banging on about how much trusted facts matter," he says.

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"If you've got world leaders who are only too happy to dismiss anything factual they don't like as 'fake news', why would you give them the ammunition of literal fake news?"

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"I was shocked and devastated, I have a lot of relatives in that area. I thought, 'it must be fake news'. But it was real."

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