Most current list from Wikipedia
- Alarmism – Excessive or exaggerated alarm about a real or imagined threat
- Alternative facts – Expression associated with political misinformation established in 2017
- Big lie – Propaganda technique
- Chequebook journalism – Practice of news reporters paying sources for information
- Citizen journalism – Journalism genre
- Clickbait – Web content intended to entice users to click on a link
- Confirmation bias – Bias confirming existing attitudes
- Demoralization (warfare) – damaging an enemy's fighting spirit
- Disinformation – False information spread deliberately to deceive
- Doomscrolling – Compulsive consumption of large quantity of negative online news
- Echo chamber (media) – Situation that reinforces beliefs by repetition inside a closed system
- Euromyth – Exaggerated or invented story about the European Union
- Fact – Datum or structured component of reality
- Fact-checking – Process of verifying information in non-fictional text
- Factoid – Either an invented claim or a trivial fact
- Fake news – False or misleading information presented as real
- Fake news website – Website that deliberately publishes hoaxes and disinformation
- Fallacy of composition – Fallacy of inferring on the whole from a part
- False equivalence – Logical fallacy of inconsistency
- Fearmongering – Deliberate use of fear-based tactics
- Filter bubble – Intellectual isolation involving search engines
- Firehose of falsehood – Propaganda technique
- Freedom of the press – Freedom of communication and expression through various media
- Information quality – term to describe the quality of the content of information systems
- Information silo – Insular information management system
- Internet meme – Concept that spreads from person to person via the Internet
- Journalism ethics and standards – Principles of ethics and of good practice in journalism
- Mainstream media – Mass news media that influence many people
- List of fake news websites
- Muckraker – Progressive Era reform-minded investigative journalists
- Political bias – Bias towards a political side in supposedly-objective information
- Post-truth politics – Political culture where facts are considered irrelevant
- Pseudohistory – Pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort historical record
- Selective exposure theory – Theory within the practice of psychology
- Social Networks – journal
- Spiral of silence – Political science and mass communication theory
- Tabloid journalism – Style of largely sensationalist journalism
- Tribe (Internet) – Slang for an unofficial community of people who share a common interest
- Truthiness – Quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than actual truth
- Turing test – Test of a machine's ability to imitate human intelligence
- Yellow journalism – Sensationalistic news
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