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by nostromo
2038 days ago
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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... |
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