Tag: fake news
It is closely associated with politics, and this association can unhelpfully narrow the focus of the issue. The term ‘false information’ is preferable as it can refer to a diverse range of disinformation covering topics such as health, environmental and economics across all platforms and genres, while ‘fake news’ is more narrowly understood as political news stories.
Its notable rise was during the 2016 US presidential election. Streamlined by then-candidate, now President Donald Trump, to address news media spreading false and sometimes, malicious information to disparage his credibility, effectively taking him out of the then-presidential race against the Left's Hillary Clinton.
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