[imh]

There are two different kinds of fake news. The first type is just shitty journalism. Stuff that isn't fact checked, doesn't tell the whole story, actively misleads, or what not. Thats the kind that has a spectrum. The second type is "Clinton ate an alien baby yesterday then died." That kind is kinda binary. It seems like facebook can't even tell the difference between those.

[dangerboysteve]

Or some "news" organizations will quote another story from another news organization to lend credibility to the original unchecked shitty journalism. Rinse and repeat.

[tormeh]

No, fake news is not shitty journalism. Fake news is stuff that the writer and editor knew were made up and wrong when they posted it. There's a difference between not particularly caring about the veracity of what you repeat and just making shit up.