Churnalism

Rarity: Common

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Churnalism is the production of low-quality or unoriginal news articles, generally by paraphrasing other sources or press releases to avoid the need for time-consuming research or fact-checking.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Churnalism”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Jean Béraud, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.