I'm a bit annoyed when people talk about "fake news" as if everyone understands what that means. It seems pretty clear to me that different people have different conceptions of what that is.
Not implying you are doing this, had to chime in tho cause it really does piss me off
I should clarify that doing this on purpose isn't even remotely funny. It's the realiziation that they have an extremely incorrect understanding of the term that hurts
It was applied to more general misinformation in the 2010s, before being 'undefined' by many of the promotors and beneficiaries of fake news.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fake_news
And now that whole construct, which was reported on to great lengths by “real” news outlets, has been proven to be “fake news” as well.
As in, the phenomenon of fake news was actually faked? Could this even be messier?
No wonder nobody trusts anything anymore.
In fact, if you read the Wikipedia article on fake news[0], you'll note the term as well as the phenomenon predate Clinton's campaign and loss, even within that campaign cycle. People were talking about it well before that point.