‘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
ntil recently, there was news and “not news” – as denoted by comments of “that’s not news” below the line on more light-hearted stories or features. Now there is “fake news”, said to be behind the election of Donald Trump as US president and a recent incident involving a gunman at a Washington pizzeria.
The term has become widely used – too widely. But it’s understandable there’s confusion when some fake news is only a bit fake, or fake for an arguably legitimate reason (such as satire).
Can we still make a useful definition of fake news? And should we even be worried about it at all?
It's more about the networks spinning stories for the benefit of there political puppets and not reporting stories that need airtime. I've seen seen a single report on the mainstream about Uranium one or the vast amount of paedo and sex trafficking arrests in the US. It's disgusting that they parade as news organisations when they are now full on propaganda outlets.