I think you guys are looking past the point. The definition of “Fake News,” that was being used when it started “trending” and the definition FB are now using

I think you guys are looking past the point. The definition of “Fake News,” that was being used when it started “trending” and the definition FB are now using in their anti-fakenews efforts is not inaccurate news, bad news, biased news or anything like that. It refers to a simple, common sense meaning of “fake.” Articles pretending to be news: written by a fictional journalists in a fictional publication, citing fictional sources at a fictional address. Fake news did quickly become an insult that everyone (especially you -know-who) uses to flavour their scorn of regular news. …like the way “fraud,” or “whore” are used as insults. This is not some impossibly abstract conversation about truth. It’s a simple conversation about spam.