fake news

See also: Fake News, Fake-News, and Fakenews

English

Noun

fake news (uncountable)

1. News stories with false or misleading information, deliberately created to disinform.
2. Satirical news stories, intended to amuse.

Usage notes

• Often used as an expression of emphatic disagreement with stories that are meant by their authors to be true.

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: fopnuus (calque)
• → Danish: fake news
• → Finnish: valeuutiset (calque)
• → French: fake news f
• → Dutch: fake news
• → German: Fake News
• → Japanese: フェイクニュース
• → Swahili: habari feki (calque)

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

References

• “fake news”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fake news. First sense popularized (in Danish) in connection with the 2016 US presidential election. Second sense popularized by Norm Macdonald as Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛjɡ̊ ˈnjuːs]

Noun

fake news

1. news stories with false information, deliberately created to misinform
2. satirical news stories, intended to amuse
   • 2008, Det store scoop, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 122:

     Et af de ypperste eksempler på denne type fake news er amerikanske Jon Stewarts The Daily Show, ...

     One of the most excellent examples of this type of fake news is American Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, ...

   • 2012 March 7, Heidi Vesterberg, “Sjov & Alvor”, in Journalisten:

     ... The Onion, der har gjort fake news til et begreb og en god forretning ...

     ... The Onion, which has made fake news a concept and a good business ...

   • 2011 April 1, Lasse Wamsler, “Rigtige nyheder — med løg på”, in Information:

     ... producenter af såkaldt fake newseller^[sic] nyhedssatire.

     ... producers of so-called fake newsor^[sic] news satire.

Usage notes

The second sense seems to have been displaced by the first.

See also

• postfaktuel, propaganda

References

• “fake news” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English fake news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feːk ˈnjuːs/, /feːk ˈniu̯s/

Noun

fake news n (uncountable)

1. disinformation or propaganda presented as news [from 2016]

   Synonym: nepnieuws

Usage notes

• As in English, may be used as a form of emphatic denial of stories that are meant by their authors to be true.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English fake news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fejk njuz/, /fɛk njuz/

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Noun

fake news f (plural fake news)

1. disinformation or propaganda presented as news

   Synonyms: infox, intox