Anew year’s resolution for all: stop talking about fake news. Perhaps we should have stopped talking about it at the same time as we started. That, according to Google Trends, was the week after Donald Trump won the US presidential election in 2016, which suggests the interest was driven by astonished people looking for an explanation. Fake news was not the only scapegoat but it was, and still is, a popular one. It was even named the Word of the Year in 2017 by Collins Dictionary. Yet the phrase has long since ceased to be useful, and here are five reasons why.
給所有人的新年決心：不要再討論假新聞了。或許我們剛一開始討論這件事的時候就應該馬上停下。根據谷歌趨勢(Google Trends)的數據，那是在唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)贏得2016年美國總統大選之后那周，這表明，這種興趣是由震驚之下尋求解釋的人們推動的。假新聞并非唯一的替罪羊，但它曾經是、也仍然是頗受歡迎的一個。它甚至入選《柯林斯詞典》(Collins Dictionary)的2017年度詞匯(Word of the Year)。然而，這個詞早已不再有用，原因有下面5個。