Why we should keep talking about fake news

Abstract

In response to Habgood-Coote (2019. “Stop Talking about Fake News!” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (9–10): 1033–1065.) and a growing number of scholars who argue that academics and journalists should stop talking about fake news and abandon the term, we argue that the reasons which have been offered for eschewing the term 'fake news' are not sufficient to justify such abandonment. Prima facie, then, we take ourselves and others to be justified in continuing to talk about fake news.