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dublinben  ·  2444 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Facebook shredded the tapes.

You've got the timeline backwards. It was a legitimate term used to describe political disinformation which was coopted by Trump and his supporters.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/08/08/facebook_has_stopped_saying_fake_news_is_false_news_any_better.html





b_b  ·  2444 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Trump also claimed he made the term up. Without any irony.

kleinbl00  ·  2444 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting.