{"id":13405,"date":"2017-11-02T01:01:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/02\/fake-news-is-very-real-word-of-the-year-for-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T01:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T00:01:40","slug":"fake-news-is-very-real-word-of-the-year-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=13405","title":{"rendered":"Fake news is &#039;very real&#039; word of the year for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s apocryphal invention, which dates back to the noughties, takes title in dictionary\u2019s annual reckoning of the most-used new expressions\u201cFake news\u201d has acquired a certain legitimacy after being named word of the year by Collins, following what the dictionary called its \u201cubiquitous presence\u201d over the last 12 months.Collins Dictionary\u2019s lexicographers, who monitor the 4.5bn-word Collins corpus, said that usage of the term had increased by 365% since 2016. The phrase, often capitalised, is frequently a feature of Donald Trump\u2019s rhetoric; in the last few days alone he has tweeted of how \u201cthe Fake News is working overtime\u201d in relation to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections, and of how \u201cFake News [is] weak!\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/nov\/02\/fake-news-is-very-real-word-of-the-year-for-2017\" target=\"_blank\">Fake news is &#039;very real&#039; word of the year for 2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s apocryphal invention, which dates back to the noughties, takes title in dictionary\u2019s annual reckoning of the most-used new expressions\u201cFake news\u201d has acquired a certain legitimacy after being named word of the year by Collins, following what the dictionary called its \u201cubiquitous presence\u201d over the last 12 months.Collins Dictionary\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}