Is false news getting worse? French newspapers are full of headlines about a bedbug plague — but intelligence agents say that foreign trolls have been spreading fake reports.
Russia spread bedbug panic claims France
Invented content: Four examples of fake stories that have appeared in recent months. Glossary
Proliferating - Growing or expanding rapidly.
Consternation - A feeling of shock or confusion. It derives from a Latin verb meaning to alarm or dismay.
Crescendo - The most intense or loudest moment.
Ebola - A highly infectious disease causing internal and external bleeding. A vaccine against it has recently been developed.
Nevada - A state in the USA. Las Vegas is in Nevada.
Malicious - Done with spite or intent to harm.
Barack Obama - The Democrat US president between 2008 and 2016.
deep-fake - An artificial image or video (a series of images) generated by a special kind of machine learning called “deep” learning (hence the name).