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Re:Why media layoffs keep happening by closeparen on Friday January 25, 2019 @12:38AM (#18995837)
This is not a productive argument, but it may be worth nothing that Science [0], Wikipedia [1], and NPR [2] are using it to refer to fabrication, not bias.

[0] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/majority-americans-we...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/50...

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Re:Why media layoffs keep happening by darkpuma on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:18AM (#18996876)
To be honest I think they're pissing into the wind. (As am I when I tell people to use the word "propaganda" instead of "fake news".)
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Re:Why media layoffs keep happening by PhantomGremlin on Friday January 25, 2019 @07:09AM (#18997300)
Wikipedia does not belong on that list.

It's useful for non-controversial stuff. I love to peruse it, I love to quote from it. But it can't possibly be trusted for anything as topical as "Fake News".

I love the Michael Scott comment:

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.

(For those who aren't familiar with the US version of The Office: Michael Scott is not meant to be taken literally).

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Re:Why media layoffs keep happening by gbhn on Friday January 25, 2019 @08:56AM (#18997851)
The history is that 'fake news" was used to refer to fabricated stories. Following it's surge in.popularity following the 2016 election, Trump realized the term was catchy and claimed falsely to have invented it, but used it instead to refer to "news Trump doesn't like" of various sorts, thus making it a contentious term.
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