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Ironically, it was not coined by Trump. https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman/status/522179364767924224 https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman/status/5221793647679242
by stonogo 6y ago
Ironically, it was not coined by Trump.
https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman/status/522179364767924224 https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman/status/522179364767924224 and https://www.theverge.com/2014/10/22/7028983/fake-news-sites-are-using-facebook-to-spread-ebola-panic https://www.theverge.com/2014/10/22/7028983/fake-news-sites-... are good examples of its use pre-Trump. By the time Trump started applying it to actual news outlets, it was already in relatively common use.
- triangleman 6y agoThe irony runs deep in this case. The examples you point out are good ones for the term in common use through the end of 2016. Then this happened: https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/politics/hillary-clinton-fake-news-epidemic/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/politics/hillary-clinton-fake... December 2016 Hillary Clinton decides to use the term in reference to recent events like her losing the election. The media picks up on it and the term starts to lose its meaning. Then Donald Trump, always with a nose for catch phrase politics, picks up the term and runs with it, a turn of events that someone on HN called a huge "own goal" by the media, and I can't say I disagree with that assessment. For more analysis of this cultural specimen: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42724320 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42724320
- vxNsr 6y agoIt's possible that the term existed before Hillary/Trump but your examples aren't it. In your examples the word "fake" is used as an adjective to the noun "news site". As in "a fake news site". "fake news" as it used today is a noun in its own right. As in "that's fake news" See also "alternative facts".