Archived The Washington Post Admits Defeat: "It's time to retire the tainted term Fake News" (archive.fo)
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Archived The Washington Post Admits Defeat: "It's time to retire the tainted term Fake News" (archive.fo)
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[–] Diogenes_The_Cynic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is whats called "blowback" in the intelligence community. I myself used the term fake news dozens of times in reddit comments when questionable articles (like anything about North Korea) were reported in mainstream news.
I also used "conspiracy theorist" many times in the same period. They're handy rhetorical tools.