What exactly is 'fake news'

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An Americanism for "Lies".

The Americans are welcome to develop their own form of English but why the media in the UK has to pick this rubbish up and inflict it on us I shall never know.

A few years ago a far superior expression surfaced over here which meant much the same thing and it still makes me laugh. It was..... " being economical with the truth"
 


Started out as things from Newsthump and Southend News Network (satire disguised as genuine), as well as malicious news "sources" pedalling stories that are fake. Turned into anything Trump doesn't like, and has now spread to the right wing of British politics. Keep hearing it.
 
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