Term's been around for a long time if you look back in newspapers etc. I began using it 2.5yrs ago in research project
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Until very recently it generally referred to news satire a la
@TheOnion &@TheDailyShow.
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Someone propabably coined the term to describe you "fake news" propagandist puppets over at
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more recently, however, possible China came up with it. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/03/28/china-targets-fake-news/ …
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