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<strong>“Fake news”</strong> — it’s a term that has seen an alarmingly high increase in popularity over the past few years. <a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news" target="_blank">Google Trends</a> shows that the phrase’s search popularity grew 20 times between just October 2016 and January 2018, and <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/woty" target="_blank">Collins Dictionary</a> even named it as one of their words of the year for 2017.