Define Fake News Meaning

Fake News
A term formerly useful for describing websites consisting entirely of intentionally fabricated news stories, but now used to describe virtually anything that does not mesh with one's own views.

Actual real-world examples of how "fake news" has been used:
"Fake news that's being released by some foreign government"
"Fake news was able to spread so easily from sources like InfoWars and Breitbart and TheBlaze"
"the Rolling Stone, which did so much to damage the reputation of journalism with their fake news"
"the New York Times IS fake news"
"Kellyanne Conway is fake news"
"fake news from the CIA"
"the fake news phenomenon is spreading to children's toys"
Source: Vice article entitled "Watch 'fake news' become a meaningless phrase
By Lela
Fake News
Normally typed in ALL CAPS, It is the only type of news that Mr. Trump loves.

"Despite what you hear in the press, healthcare is coming along great. We are talking to many groups and it will end in a beautiful picture!"
"Don't let the FAKE NEWS tell you that there is big infighting in the Trump Admin. We are getting along great, and getting major things done!"
"Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks!"
"FAKE NEWS media knowingly doesn't tell the truth. A great danger to our country. The failing @nytimes has become a joke. Likewise @CNN. Sad!"
"Give the public a break - The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!"
"Don't believe the main stream (fake news) media.The White House is running VERY WELL. I inherited a MESS and am in the process of fixing it."
"The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!"
"The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!"
By Nollie
Fake News

NBC: Trump says we are fake news
Trump: you are fake news
By Di
Fake News
Any news reported by mainstream media which is deemed unflattering, incriminating or otherwise hitting too close to home for Donald Trump and/or his cabinet of lap dog Republicans, regardless of it's actual factualness or validity.

Donald Trump refers to all of the leaks coming out regarding his ties to Putin and Russia fake news because unlike most of us, he believes that the office of the presidency gives him the power to reinvent reality.
By Veriee
Fake News
Fake news is produced by web sites or tabloids for the purpose of attracting viewers to ads. Fake news are sensational false (fiction) news-like stories created purely to attract readers.

Comedy shows, like the Daily Show, commonly mix real news with humor, including fictitious humor. But the news part of it is real. True, people who fall for fake news sites are very gullible, and perhaps can't tell which parts of the Daily Show are fiction, but those people aren't the Daily Show's target audience. Fake news has come to mean fiction for fiction's sake.

Fake news should also be distinguished from false news, also called dishonest news or lies that are told for political purposes. Many of the anti-Hillary stories were created by fake news sites, but then posted as lies on sites like Fox and Breitbart.

Fox and Breitbart republish a lot of fake news.
By Noemi
Fake News
Any statement or report that truthfully exposes the lies, ignorance, conflicts of interest, erroneous statements, megalomania, and racist, misogynistic, illegal, traitorous and tyrannical activities of the so-called President Trump and his administration. Syn. Newspeak., Ant. propaganda

WH Official Says Negative Trump Reports Will Continue To Be Labeled As ‘Fake News
By Jacky
Fake News
Typical coverage from Fox News. Their reporting contains so many exagerations, falsities, and interjected opinions, that it can in no way be considered proper and informative.

Naive Fool: I wanna find out what's going on in the world today, let's flip on Fox News.
Person Who's Not A Moron: Don't watch that crap, it's fake news, they're brainwash ya.
Naive Fool: Nah, it's on TV, it has to be true.

After watching Hannity and O'Reilly....

Naive Guy: Wow, I love Bush's policies. Did you know he was right all along? Wow, that Hillary is an whiney old bag.
Non-Moron: See, I told you this would happen!
By Aurore
Fake News
1. Real news that a government official is confident is unlikely to be proven any time soon.
2. Real news that a government official desperately needs to be untrue to save their face.

Dutch journalist: You said the Netherlands has no-go zones, where are they? This is the first we've heard of these over here.
US Ambassador to the Netherlands: That's fake news. I never said that.
Dutch journalist: OK well we have a clip, roll that footage.

(Clip shows the ambassador saying the Netherlands has no-go zones)

Dutch journalist: That's fake news, then?
US Ambassador: I never said it was fake news. That's fake news.
By Tommy
Fake News
Any news not covered by the mainstream media, or that contradicts the mainstream narrative.

Forensic analysis shows the DNC hack was actually a leak? fake news!
By Keri
Fake News
Any news story, truthful or not, which depicts Donald Trump in a bad light, or which conflicts with his current views.

All those news stories and videos which show me saying the things I said I didn't say are fake news.
By Kathryne