[eon1]

> fake news, a problem we should all be worried about as we deserve the facts, the truth.

I have concerns with this ("fake news") being presented as a recent issue, as if the media told some pure truth until Trump came along.. really, it's a catchphrase employed to dismiss something out of hand without any real reason for doing so except that it goes against what the person claiming it believes. Goes right along with #5 here.

[Zenst]

Oh it has been around for a while in many forms, call it disinformation, propaganda, social engineering, clever humour, manipulative, it has many names. Just many today know it as "Fake News" as a catch-all. In much the same way as a selfie would be known as, well I'm not sure as always called them a photo of myself without the need to mention I'd used the timer mode upon the camera or held it at arms length.

Just that the term "fake news" became the Flavour Of The Month and stuck in much the same was as selfie did. Do we credit Obama for the rise of the selfie, nope. So in that your observation about the term itself being something that can be categorised in that list does make you wonder.

Still facts and the truth are still that, and those ain't changed. But when News media is more about reporting opinions more and more over the facts, then the environment for social engineering becomes much more ripe for the picking. More so when such control can be utilised for fiscal gains, due to the effect. So share price or indeed currency manipulation being obvious examples and to be able to do that indirectly as a side effect.

This and the rise and access to the internet and the growth and use of social media has reached a stage in which it is easier than ever before to pull a hoax on the news. Let alone something more sinister. All via manipulation, or as it is referred to by the populus these days "fake news".

[booleandilemma]

Fake news is quite the buzzword at the moment.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news