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Fake news is a type of hoax or deliberate spread of misinformation published in traditional news media or via social media.

Fake news may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Fake News (album), a 2022 album by Pinguini Tattici Nucleari
  • The Fake News Show, a British comedy panel show

Other uses

  • Fake news in the United States
  • Media bias in the United States
  • Fake news website, deliberate publishing on websites of hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation purporting to be real news
  • Fake news websites in the United States
  • List of fake news websites

See also

  • Advertorial, an advertisement in the form of editorial content
  • Disinformation, intentionally false information intended to deceive the target audience
  • Internet manipulation
  • Lying press, a pejorative political term used largely by German political movements for the mass media
  • Managing the news, acts intended to influence the presentation of information within the news media
  • News propaganda, a type of propaganda covertly packaged as credible news, but without sufficient transparency concerning the source
  • News satire, a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism
  • Spin (propaganda), a form of propaganda, achieved through providing a biased interpretation
  • Video news release, a video segment made to look like a news report