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11. As a Google search term, it exploded at the start of November

Wed Jan 11, 2017, 05:34 AM

Jan 2017

https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=today%2012-m&geo=US&q=fake%20news

Peak week 4-10 Dec (with an arbitrary '100' score); in single figures until 23rd-29th Oct (when it was 10); 17 by 6th-12th Nov; 79 13th-19th Nov.

It was talked about a bit earlier in the year, eg http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/21/6-quick-ways-spot-fake-news/ or http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-35635929

And in early 2015, it was seen as a problem, prompting one of those "newspaper headline questions are always answered with 'no'" moments:

Did Facebook just kill the Web’s burgeoning fake-news industry?

2012: http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12806/fcc_fines_illinois_radio_state_for_fake_news_about_workers

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not sure Skittles Jan 2017 #1

There Might Have Always Been Fake News Out There But.... global1 Jan 2017 #6

I think because it's no longer harmless stuff that only idiots believe Skittles Jan 2017 #12

This story is FLAKE News. Lint Head Jan 2017 #2

I dont think it is some new term KGBot001 Jan 2017 #4

I found this. @7:00 mark. Article dated 12/8/2016. The Wielding Truth Jan 2017 #7

People were talking about it way before then KGBot001 Jan 2017 #8

Probably. But it seems to have come to the forefront of late. The Wielding Truth Jan 2017 #9

The year Faux Noise went on the air. kydo Jan 2017 #10

As a Google search term, it exploded at the start of November muriel_volestrangler Jan 2017 #11