Fake news: French language body urges alternative phrase
[ad_1] Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption A brief history of fake news A group of French grammarians have declared war on "fake news". Bravo, you might be thinking. But rather than false headlines or biased information, it is the English expression itself they want to get rid of. The Commission for the Enrichment of the French Language (Celf) has asked French speakers to use the phrase "information fallacieuse" instead of the term "fake news", which was popularised by Donald Trump. Or if that is too long-winded, CELF suggested the abbreviation "infox", formed from the words "information" and "intoxication". "The Anglo-Saxon expression 'fake news', which refers to a range of behaviour contributing to the misinformation of the public, has rapidly prospered in French," the commission rued. "This is an occasion to draw on the resources of the langua...