Fake news.

Normally we’d start an article like this with a quip about the topic being “in the headlines,” but when it comes to fake news in the current day, that’s redundant.

It’s a favoured subject of newspapers, social media, politicians, governments and media outlets, and it seems to have come out of nowhere.

A year or two ago, the term would be unfamiliar to most of us, but as a concept, ‘fake’ news has been around since humans began writing things down (and undoubtedly, even before that). ...

Fake news.

Normally we’d start an article like this with a quip about the topic being “in the headlines,” but when it comes to fake news in the current day, that’s redundant.

It’s a favoured subject of newspapers, social media, politicians, governments and media outlets, and it seems to have come out of nowhere.

A year or two ago, the term would be unfamiliar to most of us, but as a concept, ‘fake’ news has been around since humans began writing things down (and undoubtedly, even before that). ...