The term "fake news" is getting tiresome already.  

But there is one good thing about keeping the word "news" in it... it helps identify it with the mainstream news media that way, helping remind people they should be looking at them with suspicion too, not just the crackpot websites few people have heard of.  

It's still the mainstream media that peddles by far the most influence over public opinion.  And people often don't even realize they've been manipulated.  The public has been overly trusting of it for far, far too long.  Every news report needs to be looked at with a skeptical eye for subtle bias.