What is Fake News

Lies about a person, organization, or situation shared in social media.

Refers to nontruthful information, false news, hoax news, false information, or propaganda published under the guise of being authentic news and mostly spread out using a range of media including social media with some ulterior motives and sometimes for the sake of fun, or influencing others opinions.

Wrong information communicated as true information.

News that is false and contains a mixture of misinformation and disinformation.

Fabricated, untrue, deceptive information and content deliberately disseminated with the intention to confuse and misguide the target.

This is a portmanteau word because it is composed of two words. It refers false or misleading information presented as news. It symbolizes everything including misinformation, spin-doctoring and conspiracy theories

Fabricated stories, hoaxes, propaganda or inaccurate information that appear to be genuine, generally crafted and spread to deliberately misinform and deceive people.

As the name implies, fake news is information that lack adequate quality to be considered truthful, only intended to deceive.

The term was first used by two reporters from Buzzfeed Craig Silverman and Lawrence Alexander following their discovery of a large number of intentional false reporting of pro-Trump stories in the 2016 U.S. election. The stories came mainly from alt right wing U.S. sources. The term fake news grew quickly as regular news stories picked up multiple examples of news intentionally meant to deceive readers/viewers. Its meaning was reversed by the President shortly after his election when he began to call all news and news organizations fake when it contradicted his agenda.

Content that contains inaccurate, misleading, or fabricated information about current events, which is being distributed through different channels of communication such as print, broadcast, text messaging, or social media.

Manipulated information to change people’s opinion about a fact.

News containing misleading information.

News pieces that are intentionally and verifiably false and could mislead audiences/readers.

Often of a sensational nature, created to be widely shared or distributed for the purpose of generating revenue, or promoting or discrediting a public figure, political movement, company, etc.

False or misleading information presented as news, often to damage the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue.

A false or misleading information presented as news.

This is news about something that did not happen. Usually they are not completely fictional because are based on some facts. There are, for instance, satirical publications only with this kind of news. This technique creates a comic effect and, at the same time, highlights a specific fact.

News that gather shocking and fake content to exploit angry and sad feelings on online users, making them promote and share the fake news.

News stories that are demonstrably false yet spread as true information.

Propaganda and false statements represented as fact that are knowingly fabricated to misinform the reader and is spread through traditional news formats or social media.

Nielsen and Graves (2017) identified types of fake news such as satire, poor journalism, propaganda, some advertising, and false news.

Misleading or fabricated information that has a societal, political and or monetary gain for the individual spreading it. Not a new phenomenon, and connected to the concept of propaganda.

News that conveys or incorporates false, fabricated, or deliberately misleading information, or that is characterized as or accused of doing so.

False story, not true.

A catch-all term for intentionally false information, widely popularized during the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald Trump.

False reports of events, written and read on websites. Many of us seem unable to distinguish fake news from the verified sort. Fake news creates significant public confusion about current events.

The spreading of untrue facts online or through Social Networking Sites that may influence readers’ opinions, voting choices, and election outcomes.

A term refers to news content that is not based on any reliable source. It is not only spread due to a false belief, sensation, or knowledge, but also spread systematically to create a perception in the society. Recently, it has become widespread with the emergence of a new media on the Internet.

Information that appears like news items, which are knowingly false statements transmitted to serve ideological and/or financial purposes.

That containing inaccurate information.

It refers false reports of events, written and read on websites. False or misleading stories pervading fast via media as internet or other tools for damaging reputation of someone or something else making money.

Fake news signifies hoax news that people may deliberately or unintentionally disseminate to people.

News headlines and stories that have no factual basis but are presented as facts. The spreading of untrue facts online or through Social Networking Sites that may influence readers’ opinions, voting choices, and election outcomes.

False news stories that become viral media content.

Fake news is false or misleading content that is similar in structure to news and is usually prepared to deceive people on internet and social media.

News generated by social media users to damage an agency, entity, or person intentionally.

False information or disinformation spread via traditional or online media.

Fake news includes misinformation or disinformation presented as news. The fake news can be presented by a website, newspaper, magazine, radio station, television station, etc.

It is a false or misleading news presented to deceive the recipient.

False information presented as real news.

False and fabricated news.

False content that tries to appear as coming from a traditional news media outlet.

A false information, stories that appear to be news, spread using different traditional and digital media. They are usually created to influence public opinion.