But the administration's believability comes into question when officials like Rod Paige, the outgoing education secretary, defend buying faked coverage.
Milliner said they can pretend to blitz, fake man coverage, do just about anything, so long as they are positioned correctly at the snap.
Working in groups, their goal will be to evaluate their assigned source for its overall presentation of the news, potential political bias in its fake news coverage, its brand or type of satire, the target of its satire, and the effectiveness of the satire in attempting to "ridicule, expose, or discredit" its target.
In an effort to further muzzle dissent, Sisi's government recently co-opted Trump's tactic of declaring critical coverage "fake news" but added an additional element.
In the British pavilion, Sarah Lucas stands out purely by virtue of having no political content whatsoever (pace the fake tabloid election coverage, as crass as it's meant to be).
It all started with a motion, a play-action fake and a busted coverage on A.J. Green, one of the league's premier young wide receivers and someone who had sparked a war of words when he said he saw "holes" in the Giants' defense.
Trump vilified the press during the 2016 campaign and, as president, has continued dismissing critical coverage as "fake news," infamously dubbing the media the "enemy of the people".
Trump's equivocation on Russian meddling is among the biggest examples of his perpetual attempts to dismiss unfavorable coverage as "fake news" and "to create a different version of reality," PolitiFact's editors note.
Trump began his remarks to the Boy Scout summit in Glen Jean, West Virginia, by claiming he wouldn't talk about politics, but went off-script several times to comment on the GOP Senate health care bill and to chastise the "fake news" media for coverage of his administration.
No one responsible for the ginning up and frantic coverage of these fake controversies is ever truly upset by them.
News of the missing peahen came less than two months after an Egyptian cobra disappeared for seven days at the Bronx Zoo, inspiring feverish media coverage and a fake but widely popular Twitter feed.
