It has perfectly valid origins, what's tired is the misuse of it as it being a bad thing and as a catch all word for "things I don't like" when they won't say what they really want to say.
One of the best definitions I've seen: "Being 'conscientized' to a belief that society is organized by persistent structural forms of oppression, like systemic racism, that determine people's lives and view of the world and the need to take collective social action against the society to change it."
Fake news is a term eerily similar to that used by Goebbels to undermine German newspapers in the 1930's; similarly "mainstream media".
Adding "gone mad" to a phrase which *tends* to be about 'doing the right thing' is a great way of getting it repeated often by idiots.
I thought "fake news" originated circa 2012 to describe the spammy advertising panels that appeared on news websites that were laid out like articles to make you think you were reading news rather than an advert. Then Trump just started misusing the phrase to describe news coverage he didn't like
The funny part about this is the media not explaining what it means to be woke to the "simple minded". The "simple minded", who have the intelligence of a rotten apple with a worm 🪱 in it. This "simple mindedness" exist across all ethnic groups and include many millionaires/billionaires.
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Remember when "fake news" was used to describe far-right sites just inventing ragebait? Now it's used to dismiss criticism of them.
Adding "gone mad" to a phrase which *tends* to be about 'doing the right thing' is a great way of getting it repeated often by idiots.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_press
shoutout to faux news. i remember seeing it circa 2003 so that lines up with urban dictionary.