fake news
English
Noun
- News stories with false or misleading information, deliberately created to disinform.
- Never trust fake news websites.
- 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.
Descendants
- → Afrikaans: fopnuus (calque)
- → Danish: fake news
- → Dutch: fake news
- → Finnish: valeuutiset (calque)
- → French: fake news f
- → German: Fake News
- → Japanese: フェイクニュース
- → Portuguese: fake news
- → Swahili: habari feki (calque)
See also
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
Noun
fake news
- news stories with false information, deliberately created to misinform
- satirical news stories, intended to amuse
- 2008, Det store scoop, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 122:
- Et af de ypperste eksempler på denne type fake news er amerikanske Jon Stewarts The Daily Show, ...
- One of the most excellent examples of this type of fake news is American Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, ...
- 2012 March 7, Heidi Vesterberg, “Sjov & Alvor”, in Journalisten:
- ... The Onion, der har gjort fake news til et begreb og en god forretning ...
- ... The Onion, which has made fake news a concept and a good business ...
- 2011 April 1, Lasse Wamsler, “Rigtige nyheder — med løg på”, in Information:
Usage notes
The second sense seems to have been displaced by the first.
See also
References
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English fake news.
Pronunciation
Noun
fake news n (uncountable)
- 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
Unadapted borrowing from English fake news.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fejk njuz/, /fɛk njuz/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file)
Noun
fake news f (plural fake news)
- disinformation or propaganda presented as news
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English fake news.
Pronunciation
Noun
fake news f (plural fake news)
- fake news: disinformation or propaganda presented as news
- Cair em fake news. ― To fall for fake news.
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