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Pretty sure the term was popularized by Trump himself, who called a journalist "you are fake news".
The liberals then used it to basically replace previously common used words like disinformation, propaganda or simply hoax, to describe right wing slop of questionable veracity. While the right wing itself kept using it to claim liberals were the ones lying.
I can believe that. The chain of custody is weird with stuff like that. I was mostly aware of it because we listened to not at work and I used to hear the host pretend to call people out with that term