Fake news is information created intentionally to mislead its audience to influence them financially or ideologically.

People who create fake news use hyperbole, altered images, or false headlines to get the attention of their audience.

Things like unproven gossip, conspiracy theories, and propaganda are all forms of fake news.

The New York World and the New York Journal were newspapers that were competitors in the 1890s.

Frank Luther Mott created a list of characteristics of fake news.

Reporting on a topic in a way that attracts public interest and excitement at the expense of the truth is a writing technique called sensationalism.

Journalists who engaged in sensationalism were criticized for a lack of ethics.