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> I feel like the term "fake news" became popular after the election You're not wrong. It seemed like suddenly this phrase was everywhere. https://www.google.

• pessimizer 10y ago
  As the Republican coalition is made up of finance people and arms dealers, the Democratic coalition is made up of PR companies and management consultants (a lot like UK Labour.) They overestimated their effectiveness over a general populace, but there's no questioning their expertise in thought-leading the cosmopolitan middle class.
• JacobJans 10y ago
  The only question is why wasn't it everywhere before the election?
  • michaelchisari 10y ago
    It most definitely was, but a heated, nearly year and a half long election provided a big economic opportunity for fake news.
  • tomp 10y ago
    Because the mainstream media thought that Trump won't win, and articles attacking him were thought to be "enough". After he won, they needed a new propaganda strategy.
    • nommm-nommm 10y ago
      "Fake news" was news before Trump won the election
    • DonaldFisk 10y ago
      It was a bit complacent of them, and complaining now isn't going to affect the result. The existence of Macedonian web sites with completely made-up news stories was known about well before the US presidential election, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/facebook-clickbait-political-news-sites-us-election-trump https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/facebook-... This should have been a big story before the election, but it seems to have been barely reported on.