fake news vs fib

fake news

noun
  • News stories with false or misleading information, deliberately created to disinform. 

  • Satirical news stories, intended to amuse. 

fib

noun
  • A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. 

  • A liar. 

  • The fibula. 

  • A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number. 

verb
  • To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. 

How often have the words fake news and fib occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )