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Funtatlaguy

(10,876 posts) Thu Sep 28, 2017, 07:53 AM Sep 2017

I hate the term...Fake News....who started it? [View all]

I'm assuming it was Trump.
Probably during the primaries.
Anyway, that term has pervaded all of my spaces.
I hear it from all different types of people who think it's funny.
It's not funny.

It's a deliberate effort to denigrate legitimate media sources and reports and lump them in with illegitimate ones (e.g. Fox News).

I hope the stupid term goes away when Trump finally does.

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I hate the term...Fake News....who started it? [View all] Funtatlaguy Sep 2017 OP

It was started to refer to actual, documentable fake news spread online... Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2017 #1

The word fake in the word news has been around awhile Lint Head Sep 2017 #10

I'm thinking it was the fake tan, fake hair, fake billionaire fraudster in the White House Siwsan Sep 2017 #2

I hate it too! You're right, it's not funny, it is in fact dangerous in many ways. PearliePoo2 Sep 2017 #3

trump and his limited childlike vocabulary... samnsara Sep 2017 #4

Nailed: his ignorant vocabulary. "Disinformation/propaganda" are too hard. UTUSN Sep 2017 #14

"Pizzagate" was the biggy that flamed the "Fake News" label Docreed2003 Sep 2017 #5

Trump did not start it. It was actually meant to mean news that isnt true... TCJ70 Sep 2017 #6

The mainstream-media coined "fake news" to refer to right-wing lies during the 2016 campaign. DetlefK Sep 2017 #7

It originally meant actual fake stories planted by Russia and others oberliner Sep 2017 #8

fwiw, my inlaws used the term before Lars39 Sep 2017 #9

Hitler & the Nazis started it. Scoopster Sep 2017 #11

Short memories, maybe? This is not a new term. DFW Sep 2017 #12

Thanks for all of the replies. Funtatlaguy Sep 2017 #13