A lot of people have been using this term to describe things that they don't like. In the gun world CBC is defined as Fakes News but that is not really true, Heavily biased and poorly researched yes but not really Fake News.
Fake news can be identified by using the following checklist:
1) Is the page predominately advertising?
Web pages will create fake news stories and pay for it to be disseminated on facebook, The ads give the page owner money each time someone opens it. As people share it, the page owner is rewarded for his false news
2) Is the page something that is designed to evoke a strong emotion or to confirm a bias?
People are more likely to share something that they feel is unjust, confirms a strong world view or has shock value. Any story that threatens or strongly affirms a persons money, ideology conscience or ego is more likely to be shared.
3) Do you need to click "next" a whole bunch of times to get the entire story?
Again, each time a page with ads is visited, the page owner makes money. Clicking 'next' multiples revenue for the page owner.
4) Have you heard of this website or organization disseminating the news?
There are alternative news sites you may not of heard of but if #1-3 is true, it is probably not an alternative news site but a fake news one.
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