After the revelations about the 2016 U.S. presidential election being influenced by Russian-generated “fake news,” many people became more critical towards news on social media. “Fake news” was subsequently coined by several dictionaries and language organizations, such as the Language Council of Norway, as being the 2017 word of the year. In Norway many of us learned that if something appears to be too good to be true, then it often is.
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Source: Phys.org