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.
给所有人的新年决心：不要再讨论假新闻了。或许我们刚一开始讨论这件事的时候就应该马上停下。根据谷歌趋势(Google Trends)的数据，那是在唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)赢得2016年美国总统大选之后那周，这表明，这种兴趣是由震惊之下寻求解释的人们推动的。假新闻并非唯一的替罪羊，但它曾经是、也仍然是颇受欢迎的一个。它甚至入选《柯林斯词典》(Collins Dictionary)的2017年度词汇(Word of the Year)。然而，这个词早已不再有用，原因有下面5个。