Poll: Americans say 'fake news' is second most annoying phrase

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

"Fake News" is over 100 years old.

Really? You mean the way it is used today? You found three examples over an 11 month period of someone combining an adjective and a noun. Not really hard to do, considering many archival news sources have been digitized. I have seen no evidence that "fake news" was a phenomenal term in the 1800s. You'll need many more examples to establish a historical trend regarding that specific term.

The sad reality is the term backfired on media progressives today. They had to grasp through journalism history, diverting today's specific meaning and media use of the term to attack liberty and conservative thought. Simply saying that media critics have always pointed out untrue information in media is not the same as sources like the New York Times using a term today for specific purposes.

[Brian4Liberty]

Really? You mean the way it is used today? You found three examples over an 11 month period of someone combining an adjective and a noun. Not really hard to do, considering many archival news sources have been digitized. I have seen no evidence that "fake news" was a phenomenal term in the 1800s. You'll need many more examples to establish a historical trend regarding that specific term.

The sad reality is the term backfired on media progressives today. They had to grasp through journalism history, diverting today's specific meaning and media use of the term to attack liberty and conservative thought. Simply saying that media critics have always pointed out untrue information in media is not the same as sources like the New York Times using a term today for specific purposes.

And the term "heavy metal" can probably be found in old texts...

"Fake News" is over 100 years old. https://www.merriam-webster.com/word...y-of-fake-news

More examples and info at the link.

The use of "fake news" was quoted in an example, so if that is accurate then it appears to have been officially joined together a long time ago (unless the Webster description is fake). How widely it was used is in question, and it wasn't popular before the last election.

No it didn't..
"Fake News" was used to describe the efforts of private investigators and reporters to cover a story the MSM and Powerful Interests don't want investigated. (pizzagate)
It was used to kill the story and investigation.

It was later picked up as any Alternate SPIN was Fake News.

Yep. The definition as used in the past election was to identify the mainstream media as publishing propaganda, not fact. Thus fake news.

The left tried to turn that around such that the only "fake news" was alternative right wing outlets, and the MSM is pure as the driven snow.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

I would bet that a systematic search of the term "fake news" would have it origins with traditional news sources attempting to vilify its competition. I did a google search on the term, only searching 2016. This is hardly scientific, but maybe a start. Check all the progressive news sources on page one of my search. Check their spin, invoking Russian propaganda and other nonsense.

Google search:

keyword = "fake news"
time period = Jan 1 2016---Dec 31 2016
page one results below










2016 Lie of the Year: Fake news | PolitiFact
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...ear-fake-news/

Dec 13, 2016 - Fake news is made-up stuff, masterfully manipulated to look like credible journalistic reports that are easily spread online to large audiences willing to believe the fictions and spread the word. ... Fake news: Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop.
What is fake news? How to spot it and what you can do to stop it ...
https://www.theguardian.com › Media › Social media

Dec 17, 2016 - 'Fake news' has rapidly become a catch-all term to discredit all kinds of stories. We need to be smarter at recognising and combating outright fabrication.
How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/b...s-spreads.html

Nov 20, 2016 - How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study. By Sapna Maheshwari. Image. Images posted on Twitter by a marketer in Austin, Tex., the day after the presidential election.Credit. Eric Tucker, a 35-year-old co-founder of a marketing company in Austin, Tex., had just about 40 Twitter followers. But his recent tweet about paid ...
Russian propaganda effort helped spread 'fake news' during election ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...fa...9-b712-716af66...

Nov 24, 2016 - The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent ...
We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What ...
https://www.npr.org/.../npr-finds-th...n-in-the-subur...
Nov 23, 2016 - "The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right," says Jestin Coler, whose company, Disinfomedia, is behind some fake news sites.
How to Spot Fake News - FactCheck.org
https://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/ho...pot-fake-news/

Nov 18, 2016 - Fake news is nothing new. But bogus stories can reach more people more quickly via social media than what good old-fashioned viral emails could accomplish in years past. Concern about the phenomenon led Facebook and Google to announce that they'll crack down on fake news sites, restricting their ability to garner ad ...
Hillary Clinton calls fake news 'an epidemic' with real world ... - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/politi...mic/index.html

Dec 9, 2016 - Hillary Clinton, speaking in public Thursday for one of the first times since losing the presidential election a month ago, called the proliferation of fake news "an epidemic."
Solving the Problem of Fake News | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...m-of-fake-news

Nov 30, 2016 - Nicholas Lemann writes about the fake-news problem that was highlighted during the Presidential election of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion | Pew ...
http://www.journalism.org/2016/.../m...wing-confusion...

Dec 15, 2016 - About two-in-three U.S. adults say fake news stories cause a great deal of confusion about the basic facts of current issues. And nearly a quarter say they have.
Fake News: How a Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/.../fake-new...n-earns-thousa...

Dec 9, 2016 - Fake news ran wild during the presidential election — and even though the contest is over, the gold rush continues for dozens of enterprising teens in a remote Macedonian town. Their main cash cow: president-elect Donald Trump. "Nothing can beat Trump's supporters when it comes to social media engagement," says ...

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

The ZippyJuan Group,

Soros is your employer, right? Can you indirectly ask him if he had a hand in pushing the "fake news" spin in various media outlets? Soros funds a lot of things, so I figure he might have done something here.

Maybe you can ask your manager at Soros' Open Society Foundation Projects and they can run it up the chain of command. I would really like to know. Thanks.

[Brian4Liberty]

I would bet that a systematic search of the term "fake news" would have it origins with traditional news sources attempting to vilify its competition. I did a google search on the term, only searching 2016. This is hardly scientific, but maybe a start. Check all the progressive news sources on page one of my search. Check their spin, invoking Russian propaganda and other nonsense.

Actually, if you go back just a few years, it was used, but it was used to describe comedy such as The Onion and The Daily Show. Different definition, same phrase.

[Raginfridus]

yolo baby-bump.

Collusion.