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From fake news to false truth

WASHINGTON (SE): After being caught out telling a porky to the media on February 2 about a fictitious Bowling Green Massacre in Kentucky in support of Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims entering the United States of America (US), Kellyanne Conway, an aide to Trump, claimed that in a slip of the tongue she used the word massacre instead of terrorists.
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Fake news is just an alternative fact

The new word added to the official lexicon of Australian English for 2016 is Fake News. The editors of the Macquarie Dictionary define the term as “disinformation and hoaxes published on websites for political purposes or to drive web traffic,” as well as being “incorrect information being passed along social media.”