fake news

== English == === Noun === fake news (uncountable) Purported news stories with false or misleading information, deliberately created to disinform. Synonym: propaganda Antonym: news (sometimes construed as hypernymous) Hypernym: disinformation Coordinate terms: junk food news, junk news; misinformation (overlapping) 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. Sometimes used derogatorily to dismiss real news stories. ==== Descendants ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === POFMA Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year === References === “fake news”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Danish == === Etymology === Borrowed from English fake news. 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈfɛjɡ̊ ˈnjuːs] === Noun === fake news news stories with false information, deliberately created to misinform satirical news stories, intended to amuse ==== Usage notes ==== The second sense seems to have been displaced by the first. ==== See also ==== postfaktuel, propaganda === References === “fake news” in Den Danske Ordbog == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from English fake news. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /feːk ˈnjuːs/, /feːk ˈniu̯s/ === Noun === fake news n (uncountable, no diminutive) disinformation or propaganda presented as news [from 2016] Synonym: nepnieuws ==== 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. == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English fake news. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fejk njuz/, /fɛk njuz/ === Noun === fake news f (invariable) disinformation or propaganda presented as news Synonyms: infox, intox == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English fake news. === Pronunciation === === Noun === fake news f (invariable) fake news: disinformation or propaganda presented as news Cair em fake news. ― To fall for fake news. ==== Related terms ====