# fake news
## English
### Noun

fake news (uncountable)
* Purported news stories with false or misleading information, deliberately created to disinform.
    Antonym: news (sometimes construed as hypernymous)
    Hypernym: disinformation
    Coordinate terms: junk food news, junk news; misinformation (overlapping)
    Never trust fake news websites.
* Satirical news stories, intended to amuse.

#### Usage notes

* Often used as an expression of emphatic disagreement with stories that are meant by their authors to be true.

#### Descendants

* → Afrikaans: fopnuus (calque)
* → Danish: fake news
* → Dutch: fake news
* → Finnish: valeuutiset (calque)
* → French: fake news f
* → German: Fake News
* → Japanese: フェイクニュース
* → Portuguese: fake news
* → Russian: фейк-нью́с (fejk-nʹjús)
* → Swahili: habari feki (calque)

#### Translations
### See also

* POFMA
* Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

### References

* “fake news”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fake news. First sense popularized (in Danish) in connection with the 2016 US presidential election. Second sense popularized by Norm Macdonald as Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɛjɡ̊ ˈnjuːs]
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### Noun

fake news
* news stories with false information, deliberately created to misinform
* satirical news stories, intended to amuse
** 2008, Det store scoop, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 122:Et af de ypperste eksempler på denne type fake news er amerikanske Jon Stewarts The Daily Show, ...One of the most excellent examples of this type of fake news is American Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, ...
** 2012 March 7, Heidi Vesterberg, “Sjov & Alvor”, in Journalisten:... The Onion, der har gjort fake news til et begreb og en god forretning ...... The Onion, which has made fake news a concept and a good business ...
** 2011 April 1, Lasse Wamsler, “Rigtige nyheder — med løg på”, in Information:... producenter af såkaldt fake newseller nyhedssatire.... producers of so-called fake newsor news satire.

#### Usage notes

The second sense seems to have been displaced by the first.

#### See also

* postfaktuel, propaganda

### References

* “fake news” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fake news.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /feːk ˈnjuːs/, /feːk ˈniu̯s/

### Noun

fake news n (uncountable)
* disinformation or propaganda presented as news [from 2016]
    Synonym: nepnieuws

#### Usage notes

* As in English, may be used as a form of emphatic denial of stories that are meant by their authors to be true.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fake news.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fejk njuz/, /fɛk njuz/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Switzerland):(file)

### Noun

fake news f (plural fake news)
* disinformation or propaganda presented as news
    Synonyms: infox, intox

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fake news.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfej.ki ˈniws/ [ˈfeɪ̯.ki ˈniʊ̯s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfej.ki ˈniws/ [ˈfeɪ̯.ki ˈniʊ̯s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈfej.ki ˈniwʃ/ [ˈfeɪ̯.ki ˈniʊ̯ʃ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈfej.ke ˈniws/ [ˈfeɪ̯.ke ˈniʊ̯s]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfɐj.kɨ ˈniwʃ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfɐj.kɨ ˈniwʃ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈfej.kɨ ˈniwʃ/
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /ˈfej.kɨ ˈniwʃ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈfe.kɨ ˈniwʃ/

### Noun

fake news f (invariable)
* fake news: disinformation or propaganda presented as news
    Cair em fake news. ― To fall for fake news.

#### Related terms

* fake