Millum fajitas og fakement finni eg fake news í nýggjastu útgávuni av stóru ensku orðabókini hjá Collins, Collins English Dictionary . Tað er ársins orð, siga tey, og greiða soleiðis frá nýggja navnorðinum: Grundgevið verður soleiðis fyri, hví hetta er ársins orð í enska heiminum í undanfarna ári: It has been derided by the leader of the free world and accused of influencing elections, but ‘fake news’ is today legitimate news as it is named Collins’ Word of the Year 2017. The word saw an unprecedented usage increase 365% since 2016. As defined by Collins, ‘fake news’ means “false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting”...The associate of ‘fake’ with ‘news’ started out in the field of comedy, as exemplified by shows such as Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show and Chris Morris’s The Day Today, but around 2005 the term began to be applied to false news stories that were circulated with malicious intent rather than as satire. During the 2016 US