Relevance
In the past few weeks to few months the term "fake news" has been really blowing up on social media and even on televised news programs. Fake news has been on the tip of the tongue for President Trump, Bernie Sanders, and others, the term has even been thrown at those same people as well as people with like size of followings like Tomi Lahren.
Trump & Fake News
President Trump has been in the spotlight for using the term multiple times, on January 11, 2017 at a press conference Trump said this to a CNN reporter, "I am not going to give you a question, you are fake news". Before he shot down the reporter's request to question the soon to be president Trump continually told the reporter to stop being rude to the other reporter asking their question. More recently, President Trump took another "jab" at the media when he held a conference to talk about the resignation of National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn. During the conference Trump was asked about the leaks about Flynn and how they were perceived by the media, "[...] the leaks are absolutely real, the news is fake because so much of the news is fake" - Trump Feb. 16, 2017.
Sanders Vs. CNN
Bernie Sanders also got in on the fun when he was being interviewed by Erin Burnett, "I don't know maybe he[Trump] was watching CNN 'fake news'" - Sanders Feb. 12, 2017. After saying this Sanders immediately told Burnett that he was joking about the matter, Burnett asked another question but Sanders could not hear her. President Trump said in a Tweet that because of what Bernie Sanders said CNN cut him off. As a response CNN posted the script from the interview where Burnett claims technical difficulties, she also continued the interview after a commercial break.
What actually is it?
Fake news by solid definition is when an article is completely made up to deceive readers to intentionally have the article clicked and spread. By doing this the article would be circulated quickly which in turn would reach thousands, creating wealth for the publisher. However, the term fake news has multiple variations, the most common include simple distortions of a real story and clickbait titles that have no real connection to the story.
Read More:
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-...
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/false-cnn-smacks-d...
https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/83077231172480204...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/18/what...
