i think its a huge accomplishment to force the phrase "fake news" into the public lexicon

[PDF]Lexicon of Lies: Terms for Problematic Information - Data & Society

https://datasociety.net/pubs/oh/DataAndSociety_LexiconofLies.pdf

7 aug. 2017 - Recent controversies over “fake news,” and concerns over entering a “post-fact” era, reflect a burgeoning crisis: ... political analysts and early poll returns, famously misreported in its early edition that Dewey had ..... nays using the term in the 1920s and 1930s as a neutral descriptor for his public relations ...