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Fake news started with the Tea Party, "shock jocks" and other right-wing conservative attempts to discredit reality-based news media. Blaming the DNC is a good

by scholia 10y ago

Fake news started with the Tea Party, "shock jocks" and other right-wing conservative attempts to discredit reality-based news media. Blaming the DNC is a good example of fake news lies in action.

crdoconnor 10y ago
Fake news started hundreds if not thousands of years ago. The recent hysteria about fake news started roughly 48 hours after the Presidential election results.
- croon 10y ago
  Fake news was abundant enough that it became a meme in 2005 as "truthiness". That you took offense to it only after November 10, 2016 is inconsequential.
  - crdoconnor 10y ago
    The media's sudden obsession starting Nov 10th is graphed here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news Spikes like that don't happen by accident.
    - scholia 10y ago
      No, they don't. In this case, on your link, the top "related topic" is Donald Trump and the top three "related queries" are "trump", "trump fake news" and "trump news". This is what happens when you get a pathological liar running for president. Trump "defended" his lies with more lies, such as calling honest news sources "fake news".
    - Feuilles_Mortes 10y ago
      You're looking at a specific term that has caught on, of course there is a spike. The ancestral comments are talking about the idea of disinformation, which I'm guessing has been around as long as humans started talking to each other (hell maybe even before that).