The origin of the term "fake news" was rewritten by the people who did actually coin the term right around when every totalitarian state in the world (quite pre

The origin of the term "fake news" was rewritten by the people who did actually coin the term right around when every totalitarian state in the world (quite predictably) adopted it to justify their crackdowns on speech. (It was obvious they would because it meshed so nicely with the existing narratives they used to justify this to their citizens.) The claim that Trump didn't coin the term is now an alternative fact; the only permissible non-Trump origin is the supposed tie to "Lugenpresse" that's also since appeared.