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2. I'm thinking it was the fake tan, fake hair, fake billionaire fraudster in the White House

Thu Sep 28, 2017, 08:02 AM

Sep 2017

Because if there is one thing he is expert at, it's being fake.

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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

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

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

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