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Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue. Although false news has always been spread throughout history, the term "fake news" was first used in the 1890s when sensational reports in newspapers were common. Nevertheless, the term does not have a fixed definition and has been applied broadly to any type of false information. It's also been used by high-profile people to apply to any news unfavourable to them. Further, disinformation involves spreading false information with harmful intent and is sometimes generated and propagated by hostile foreign actors, particularly during elections. In some definitions, fake news includes satirical articles misinterpreted as genuine, and articles that employ sensationalist or clickbait headlines that are not supported in the text. Because of this diversity of types of false news, researchers are beginning to favour information disorder as a more neutral and informative term.

Fake news - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia False or misleading information presented as real For other uses, see Fake news (disambiguation) . This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably . When this tag was added, its readable prose size was 18,300 words. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings . Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page . ( January 2024 ) Reporters with various forms of "fake news" from an 1894 illustration by Frederick Burr Opper Fake news is false or misleading informatio

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