UNESCO defines three types of false information:
- Disinformation: Information that is false and deliberately created to harm a person, social group, organisation or country
- Misinformation: Information that is false but not created with the intention of causing harm
- Mal-information: Information that is based on reality, used to inflict harm on a person, social group, organisation or country.
Oxford English Dictionary defines fake news as:
- news that conveys or incorporates false, fabricated, or deliberately misleading information, or that is characterized as or accused of doing so.
So "fake news" can be information that is actually untrue, or it can be used as a term, by people who don't agree with, and who want to discredit, the real facts.
