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t om m ould introduction to the Speci iss a ue o l n Fake n ews: Definitions and Approaches Keywords AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus: Definition, news, truth, politics “Fake news” has officially arrived. c ompeting against “antifa,” “echo cham- ber,” and “fidget spinner,” among others, “fake news” was ultimately selected by the Collins Dictionar a ys the 2017 word of the year, defined as “false, oen s ft ensational, information disseminated under the guise of news repo c ro tl in lin g” ( s 2017). As the head of language content at Collins Dict exp iona la rin y ed: “‘Fake news,’ either as a statement of fact or as an accusation, has been inescapable this year, contributing to the undermining of society’s trust in news reporting: given the term’s ubiquity and its regular usage by Presiden trum t p, it is clear thc ao t llins’ Word of th ye ear ‘fake news’ is very real news” (Flood 2017). Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that an unprecedented four independently proposed panels on fake news were presented at the 2017 Ac nn onf ua er l ence of the American Folklore Society (AFS). m ultiple panels on
Journal of American Folklore – American Folklore Society
Published: Nov 2, 2018
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