[damnencryption]

I agree with the sentiment solely because most sides of the political spectrum are doing the same. Donald trump rose to the fame with calling everything fake news. Somehow everyone now believes there is fake news so they don't trust outside their own echo chambers which is called fake news by someone else.

I think it's media hacking another vulnerable parts of human beings. I see attempts to censor and attempts to fake being censored in order to hijack different vulnerabilities.

[nostromo]

You have the causality backwards. "Fake news" was not a Trump invention, it was a criticism originating from the political left against people that supported Trump with fake articles, such as the false article of the pope supporting Trump before the 2016 election.

Trump, as he so often does, co-opted the attack and used it offensively. The same media that was fretting about fake news was suddenly being called fake news, which was when they decided they no longer liked the term.

The Washington Post made this public and explicit, saying the media should no longer use the term they had popularized just months prior:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-r...