The increasing usage of the term corresponds with the beginning of Trump's presidency. Given this timing, we next conducted a parallel search of the term 'fake news.' Our suspicion was that the term 'fact-based journalism' arose in response to the rise of the notion of 'fake news'...
Though correlation doesn't guarantee causality, the pattern below strongly suggests that the term's use in the news industry may have been a response to the prevalence of 'fake news' discourse within politics and the media.
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