GreenDell144

Bad enough that they had to haul out snopes, wikipedia and Megan Kelly to label this “debunked”; now they got in the dictionary! What’s next?

Vindicator

Great research thread - post and comments both. Giving it the Share! flair.

Cc183

This is a failsafe-reaction. They need some muscle if theyre going to keep masses believing fake news --giving this phrase a price, its a cunning plan.

3141592653

When TPTB call something fake news, that's when you know there's really something to look into

Sharipie

Jon Rappaport started his website NoMoreFakeNews.com several years ago

dreamwarrior23

Fake news was used to describe misleading titles that were placed by advertisers on real news sites. You see a link on yahoo that looks like it leads to a real news story but its clickbait. Later on especially during the election the russians exploited misleading ad links that led to real news stories that they used to make tons of money (and influence voter opinion). Sometimes they altered stories slightly to make it fit the titles, but otherwise were copypasting real news stories onto unofficial news sites/misleading domain names. MSM ran with the term "fake news" to label all news outlets that weren't MSM as "fake news," grouping them together with tabloid sites. The public eventually misunderstood the term "fake news" as tabloid.

angelafogo

You really are a proud member of the brainwashed. Check the facts not the stories they have fed you.

Are_we_sure

Both of these claims are nonsense.

Contrary to what they are trying to make us believe, the term was first used by OBAMA on 21 of November of 2016

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If you google search there are virtually no proper uses of the term FAKE NEWS before the 5th of December of 2016 other than Obama's speech and this BBC News article

Fake news was described as epidemic by April 2016.

This is from December.

Tuesday 13 September 2016 08.00 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 31 May 2017 11.59 EDT Facebook and Twitter have signed up to a coalition of news organisations aimed at improving reporting from social media and tackling fake news.

Below are fake news search results from Nov 1 2015 to Nov 1 2016. This is just the first page of Google results. Your claims are false.

About 980,000 results Search Results The plague of fake news is getting worse -- here's how to protect ... money.cnn.com/2016/10/30/media/facebook-fake-news-plague/index.html Oct 30, 2016 -

Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors https://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/ Jan 14, 2016 -

Facebook Still Has a Fake News Problem | Fortune fortune.com › Tech › Fortune 500 Oct 12, 2016 -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../facebook-has-repeatedly-trended-fake-news-since ... Oct 12, 2016 -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of.../fake-news-thats-good-for-the-soul/ Apr 4, 2016 -

The pro-Trump fake news website that's finding an audience — with ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../in-the-year-of-trump-a-made-up-news-website-ru ... Apr 2, 2016 -

In firing human editors, Facebook has lost the fight against fake news ... https://www.theguardian.com › Technology › Facebook Aug 29, 2016 -

Facebook fact-check: all the fake news, from the Obamas to miracle ... https://www.theguardian.com › Technology › Facebook Oct 30, 2016 -

Facebook steps up fight against fake news | TheHill thehill.com/policy/technology/296211-facebook-steps-up-fight-against-fake-news Sep 16, 2016 -

Facebook Wanted A Fight Against Fake News. It Got One. - BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/.../in-its-fight-against-fake-news-facebook-found-a-resilian ... Apr 11, 2016 - The epidemic of fake news on Facebook isn't over, it's just more distributed.

Blacksmith21

@angelafogo

06 Nov 16 - Origins of the phrase "fake news" . Right before the Podesta emails were leaked:

http://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-wikileaks-jennifer-palmieri-whopper-emails-2016-11

angelafogo

Haha! Incredible. Great find

Blacksmith21

I just paid attention in class ; )

ThisIsGonnaHurt

Fake News: is TWO words!

angelafogo

It is but both the Collings dictionary and the article are calling it one word. "term" would be proper

ThisIsGonnaHurt

Fake News, word term of the year...

TFTFY.

Eggs-Vs-Bacon

I thought this was correct until I read waxdino's post, now I have to look into it.

lopus

I think I read the term "Fake News" already before Dec 2016 - shortly after "Pizzagate" emerged.
It's interesting, when you take a look at the "Google Trends" - Here they are for "Pizzagate" and "Fake News" - from May 2016 till November 2017!

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-05-01%202017-11-21&geo=US&q=pizzagate,fake%20news

It also was interesting, how, just after "Pizzagate" emerged , Google suddenly was full with that little football-"scandal", which also had been called "pizzagate" ("Battle of the Buffet")!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Buffet

derram

https://archive.fo/rOt0e :

'Fake News' Named Word of the Year

https://archive.fo/PEkBP :

Fake news is domestic terrorism (Opinion) - CNN

https://archive.fo/ntm68 :

As Fake News Spreads Lies, More Readers Shrug at the Truth - The New York Times

https://archive.fo/YKrur :

Donald J. Trump en Twitter: "Reports by @CNN that I will be working on The Apprentice during my Presidency, even part time, are ridiculous & untrue - FAKE NEWS!"

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angelafogo

Thanks! I am correcting the post. Still i believe it is more related to pizzagate than to election loss if you take a look at the graph and the fact that it only appear after Pizzagate got loose

waxdino

This is a good post, but you're wrong... Obama made his Fake News!™ speech on November 17, and it coincided with WikiLeaks dnc and podesta email leaks. Which is scary, too, it means they knew we'd find shit in there and it was preemptive. I don't have time to source all the dates but here's a good article discussing how Obama's speech wasn't even the beginning of the phenomenon: http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/21/obama-joins-war-fake-news/
Let's make sure our red pills are truth!

angelafogo

i am correcting the post. You are both correct. Still that is only 20 days before the Comet Ping Pong incident and of course, only after Pizzagate surfaced.