fake news

Noun

 * 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.

Etymology
Borrowed from. 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.

Noun

 * 1) news stories with false information, deliberately created to misinform
 * 2) satirical news stories, intended to amuse

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

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) disinformation or propaganda presented as news

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.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) disinformation or propaganda presented as news