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16 First Amend. L. Rev. 121 (2017-2018)
The Media's Definition of Fake News vs. Donald Trump's

handle is hein.journals/falr16 and id is 138 raw text is: THE MEDIA'S DEFINITION OF FAKE NEWS VS. DONALD TRUMP'S Angie Holan* When PolitiFact fact-checks fake news, we are calling out fabricated content that intentionally masquerades as news coverage of actual events. When President Donald Trump talks about fake news, he means something else entirely. Instead of referring to fabricated content, Trump uses the term to describe news coverage that is unsympathetic to his administration and his performance, even when the news reports are accurate. Trump is so taken with the phrase fake news, that he's mentioned it at least 153 separate times between January and October, 2017, in interviews, on Twitter, and in speeches, according to a count compiled by PolitiFact.1 Recently, Trump even took credit for inventing the term. Look, the media is fake, Trump said in an interview with conservative pundit and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.2 The media is-really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I've come up with-is fake. I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years, but I've never noticed it. In ten years of fact-checking, we here at PolitiFact have not seen such a yawning chasm between the meaning of words. PolitiFact has devoted many hours to knocking down fake news: accounts of events that never happened, from the frightening to the frivolous. We've fact-checked whether NASA said the earth would be plunged into darkness for fifteen days in November. (Pants on Fire.).' We've looked at whether HIV had been detected in * Angie Drobnic Holan is the editor of PolitiFact. She previously was deputy editor, and before that a reporter for PolitiFact, helping launch the site in 2007. She was a member of the PolitiFact team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2008 election. She has been with the Tampa Bay Times since 2005 and previously worked at newspapers in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and New Mexico. 1 Angie Drobnic Holan, The Media's Definition ofFake News vs. Donald Trump's, POLITIFACT (Oct. 18, 2017, 2:11 PM), http://www.politifact.com/truth-o- meter/article/2017/oct/ 18/deciding-whats-fake-medias-definition-fake-news-vs/. 2 Huckabee, Gov. Mike Huckabee's Full Interview with President Trump I TBN, YOUTUBE (Oct. 7, 2017), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVQPVGPAUtc&feature=youtu.be&t=8m48s 3 _d. 4 Joshua Gillin, It's Fake! NASA Never Said the Earth Will Go Darkfr 15 Days in November2017, POLITIFACT (June 14, 2017, 12:33 PM),

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