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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
by 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 agoNo, 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 agoYou'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).