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No, people call them fake news because they do not like the facts that are reported.
by rejschaap 7y ago
No, people call them fake news because they do not like the facts that are reported.
- oblongx 7y agoI'd wager it might have something to do with lack of objectivity in almost everything reported.
- brighter2morrow 7y agoLies by omission, quotes without context, misleading statistics, and good ol' anonymous sources. They may be "facts" in the literal sense but they are intentionally misleading.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 7y agoIt's the facts that aren't reported, and the facts that are overemphasized or out of context.
- BubRoss 7y agoYou can call that bias, but calling it fake is not true.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 7y agoIt's a euphemism of the behavior of the media. No one means the news is 100% fake, but that there is some manipulation and bias going on. At some point when there's enough bias it does become fake news because you can't trust the source at all.
- BubRoss 7y agoThere are two separate things. One is reporting certain things and not others or worse, trying to skew the gravity of various facts with tainted opinions from someone invested in the perception of them. Then there is literally reporting things that aren't true and are made up. Various news sources indulge in the first two, but any news source with a shred of respectibility doesn't engage in actually reporting things that are false.