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>I really hate the term "fake news". It implies that someone created the whole story on purpose to deceive people No it just means someone published the story
by xupybd 9y ago
>I really hate the term "fake news". It implies that someone created the whole story on purpose to deceive people
No it just means someone published the story without proper fact checking.
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- mortehu 9y agoBack in 2016 it meant fabricated news, usually about politics. Donald Trump started abusing the term not long after it was revealed that the fabricated news at the time was mostly successful in targeting his followers, presumably to dilute the term. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XoLHF3Z9eMg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XoLHF3Z9eMg or Google "Jestin Coler"
- xupybd 9y agoI stand corrected.