Fake News
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1 min readJun 11, 2017
A type of journalism whose goal is to misinform a target audience forging erroneous, decontextualized, or false information, and spreading it via both traditional media and online channels which usually have a look and feel similar to trusted news outlets.
Fake news are often used for financial or political gain, but also to increase audience, virality, or clickbait revenue.
See Agnotology
See Astroturfing
