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>where the term comes from Apparently it wasn't really used before November 9th, 2016 and then suddenly it became a talking point on certain US news networks:

>where the term comes from Apparently it wasn't really used before November 9th, 2016 and then suddenly it became a talking point on certain US news networks: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%22fake%20news%22 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

avivo 8y ago
The term was popularized from reporting by Craig Silverman which he had been going on for years as described here https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/i-helped-popularize-the-term-fake-news-and-now-i-cringe https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/i-helped... . It started to become widely used after this article https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/viral-fa... , showed the top 5 "fake" stories had more Facebook engagement than the top 5 "mainstream" stories. The term and coverage was grounded in a real phenomenon, though many people in the field (myself included) prefer to use other terms.
- dredmorbius 8y ago
  The term itself dates to the late 1980s, and formerly referred to corporate-produced propaganda in the form of audio- and video- news releases (AVRs and VNRs). A search of the Nexis media database indicates that the term was initially used more broadly. In May 1989 Adweek writer Barbara Lippert panned ads in which former newsreader Linda Ellerbee appeared "in a fake news setting" hustling Maxwell House coffee. In August that year Ad Day's Ed Buxton criticized the use of "the fake news bite" where reporters re-enacted news events as part of a news story. However, it was a cover article by David Lieberman titled "Fake News" in the February 1992 edition of TV Guide that popularized the term. In his article Lieberman took the media and PR industry to task over video news releases. He argued that if footage from VNR's were used in news it should be labelled so that viewers were aware of its origin. If not, he argued, media outlets risked undermining their own credibility if they "pretend out of pride that what they broadcast is real news, instead of labeling it for what it is." https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fake_news https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fake_news

avivo 8y ago

The term was popularized from reporting by Craig Silverman which he had been going on for years as described here https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/i-helped-popularize-the-term-fake-news-and-now-i-cringe https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/i-helped... . It started to become widely used after this article https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/viral-fa... , showed the top 5 "fake" stories had more Facebook engagement than the top 5 "mainstream" stories. The term and coverage was grounded in a real phenomenon, though many people in the field (myself included) prefer to use other terms.

dredmorbius 8y ago
The term itself dates to the late 1980s, and formerly referred to corporate-produced propaganda in the form of audio- and video- news releases (AVRs and VNRs). A search of the Nexis media database indicates that the term was initially used more broadly. In May 1989 Adweek writer Barbara Lippert panned ads in which former newsreader Linda Ellerbee appeared "in a fake news setting" hustling Maxwell House coffee. In August that year Ad Day's Ed Buxton criticized the use of "the fake news bite" where reporters re-enacted news events as part of a news story. However, it was a cover article by David Lieberman titled "Fake News" in the February 1992 edition of TV Guide that popularized the term. In his article Lieberman took the media and PR industry to task over video news releases. He argued that if footage from VNR's were used in news it should be labelled so that viewers were aware of its origin. If not, he argued, media outlets risked undermining their own credibility if they "pretend out of pride that what they broadcast is real news, instead of labeling it for what it is." https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fake_news https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fake_news