Perhaps, Prof, especially if we take the view that fake news is more or less a political stratagem, deliberately deployed with the intention to deceive or to make profit as the case may be. Alternatively, it could as well be that "fake news" is also a stratagem of the powerful, to discredit alternative discourses and silence the voices of Others, however defined, by seeking to label their opinions as marginal and irrelevant, to disarm them and to render them politically impotent. So yes, actually, like fiction, we should study "fake news". When you consider that Trump calls everything CNN says "fake news", then one can see that this is not about the verity of the information being transmitted by CNN, but more about delegitimising a particular worldview in opposition to one's own.
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