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throwaway-1209 · 2017-06-14 20:25:49+00:00

+1 any article about "fake news" that doesn't mention these multimillion dollar propaganda machines is itself fake news.

gverrilla | karma 566 | avg karma 1.09 · | 2021-10-05 22:17:41

fake news machine.

losteric | karma 5210 | avg karma 3.91 · | 2018-04-02 16:42:41

"Fake news" is a symptom of consumer ignorance, and beneficial for facilitating monopolization.

shepardrtc | karma 2049 | avg karma 3.06 · | 2017-02-22 17:47:36

Anything someone doesn't like can be considered "fake news".

em-bee | karma 7577 | avg karma 1.36 · | 2021-08-27 08:33:44

it's fake news

TeMPOraL | karma 106045 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2017-01-03 02:36:10

"Fake news" is a brilliantly positioned term that is meant to imply that somehow mainstream media is not mostly fake.

syntheticcdo | karma 461 | avg karma 3.27 · | 2019-01-24 07:04:38+00:00

Fake news is news that is fake -- aka entirely fabricated with no basis in reality. "13 Obama supporters arrested for terrorist plot"-- boom, just made that up. That's fake news. Anything with a basis in reality is not.

necessity | karma 1315 | avg karma 3.22 · | 2017-02-01 13:30:40

Fact: 99% of "fake news website" classifications are in fact false.

leesalminen | karma 4966 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2017-05-23 22:11:34+00:00

It's all fake news. /s

i_feel_great | karma 1382 | avg karma 3.96 · | 2017-03-20 10:38:31+00:00

The entire field of advertising can be classified as "fake news".

m0zg | karma 1604 | avg karma 0.37 · | 2020-10-19 05:10:59+00:00

Says the publication whose sole raison d'etre is to get you to read fake news as much as possible.

skocznymroczny | karma | avg karma · | 2020-01-08 09:57:36+00:00

It's funny considering "fake news" was invented by liberals in the US to shut down conservative media.

coldtea | karma 86593 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2016-11-27 08:30:25+00:00

The global media (and the US ones disproportionately) is behind almost every piece of fake news people all over the world see -- only it's called just "news".

dreta | karma 344 | avg karma 2.11 · | 2018-11-12 14:17:09+00:00

In a clearly biased environment like Facebook everything is "Fake News".

hulitu | karma 3686 | avg karma 0.58 · | 2023-11-24 02:18:39

That's why a lot of propaganda outlets have started to have "fact checks" about "fake news".

fblnd | karma -2 | avg karma -2.0 · | 2018-02-02 13:28:09+00:00

This is what I call "Fake News"

darkpuma | karma 3018 | avg karma 1.66 · | 2019-01-10 05:22:35+00:00

Can we stop calling propaganda "fake news"?

williesleg | karma -33 | avg karma -0.04 · | 2021-06-15 16:48:12

Fake news from the fakers.

axaxs | karma 7169 | avg karma 3.91 · | 2017-05-25 02:41:08

like CNN, you don't get to define fake news. Fake news is as simple as it sounds: articles that are factually incorrect. Sadly, from random images to all major media, everyone is guilty of it.

heavyset_go | karma 25689 | avg karma 3.63 · | 2021-11-03 14:53:40

At one point "fake news" meant something concrete, referring to throwaway blogs masquerading as actual news organizations that don't exist.