| Peh said: As far as I heard, fake news are labeled as news which contain false informations on purpose. The goal is to spread misinformations. News, where the source is later being verified as false are not considered fake news. |
Similar to "terrorism", there simply is no precise and commonly agreed on definition of the phrase "fake news".
Everybody uses his own, slightly different understanding of that phrase, which fits his personal agenda. Similar to the word "terrorism", "fake news" is always only what some perceived "enemy" does.
What you are describing is somewhat close to being something like the least common demoninator though; in cases where someone knowingly spreads false information, most people would agree that this can be considered an example of "fake news".
Still, even that definition has huge drawbacks:
- that definition also covers phenomenons like "hoaxes", or satirical news websites like "the onion" or "Der Postillon"
- in cases when the news is not satirical, that definition is basically useless. Because even if it can be proven that some information is false, the person who spread it will claim that he simply wasn't aware of that, and thus didn't actually lie.
