It was not coined by Donald Trump[1][2]: > Author Sarah Churchwell asserts that it was Woodrow Wilson who popularized the phrase 'fake news' in 1915, although

It was not coined by Donald Trump[1][2]: > Author Sarah Churchwell asserts that it was Woodrow Wilson who popularized the phrase 'fake news' in 1915, although the phrase had been used in the US in the previous century. > The term actually dates from the late 19th century, when it was used by newspapers and magazines to boast about their own journalistic standards and attack those of their rivals. In 1895, for example, Electricity: A Popular Electrical Journal bragged that “we never copy fake news,” while in 1896 a writer at one San Jose, California, paper excoriated the publisher of another: “It is his habit to indulge in fake news. ... [H]e will make up news when he fails to find it.” [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news#20th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news#20th_century [2] https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/In-a-Word/2019/0726/Surprisingly-old-words-that-seem-contemporary https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/In-a-Word/2019/0726/Su...