Fake News: A Definition

Despite being a new term, ‘fake news’ has evolved rapidly. This paper argues that it should be reserved for cases of deliberate presentation of (typically) false or misleading claims as news, where these are misleading by design. The phrase ‘by design’ here refers to systemic features of the design...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Axel Gelfert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2018-03-01
Series:Informal Logic
Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/5068