The phrase "fake facts" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to information or claims that are presented as facts but are actually false or misleading. Example: The politician was accused of spreading fake facts about the state of the economy in order to sway voters.
B.B.: Is it difficult to come up with fake facts instead of real ones?
If you say your story is made up, your fake facts may be of great value as inventions revealing truth.
Sample: "I guess if you use fake facts it's easier to write editorials in favor of unlimited and unaccountable state power to detain U.S. citizens" (writes Henry Farrell).
The problem of fake facts, of intentional deceptions, is one thing, but the bewildering and overwhelming thicket of real facts is at least as serious a problem.
HODGMAN: Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just possible, but also interesting.
This is the reality of modern American politics: a large and cohesive bloc of voters lives in an alternative reality, fed fake facts by Fox and Rush — whom they listen to out of tribal affiliation — and completely unaware that it's all fiction.
(Both also relied on a hefty dollop of false facts and fake promises to win over voters).
But that is a cool fake fact!
He won after deploying horses and bayonets to defend himself against Romney's charge that "Our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917" — a fake fact relying on the raw number of boats of every shape and description the Navy has, which Romney has used before and that, this time, got the response it deserved.
Over the past year, the air has been thick with buzzwords: real news and fake news, facts and alternative facts.
The key giveaway is its use of quotation marks around the phrases "fake news", "fact check" and "fact checker", despite the fact that previous Mail articles have regularly used the words without any.
