Nearly every day, the top story on my phone is some alleged altercation that happened on a daytime talk show. It's not just a clickbait headline; the story misrepresents the talk show hosts as actually arguing, but they invariably "make up" at the end (because they were obviously just bantering the whole time).

Is there a real term for this, like a 'rift report' (I made that up, then found it in PC gaming context) versus a wordy and/or ambiguous work-around such as 'fake celeb-fight news'?

Context and fill-in-the-blank sentence:

> Q: Did you see that Jack and Jill got into another argument today?
> 
> A: Every day, really? No, that is just [a current term along the lines
> of 'rift report'].

I'm searching for a common term, what to call it as succinctly as possible.

The reason being, to bridge this epic generation gap…and avoid this end of a conversation:

> *No, they were really going at it … Oh, they staged it, for ratings, I see … Taken out of context, how? I saw the clip … I couldn't
> play the whole video, but I read the whole article … Yes, I did … Again with the
> "fake news"—it haaappened … Don't worry about it; they made up …
> We're "bantering" right now, so what? … Never mind, it's all good.*

So I don't need a formal or technical term, but to show research, two of the deeper search results follow:

A search for 'types of fake news' returned broad categories of fake news: *false news, polarized content, satire,* etc. [\[phys.org\]][1] and types of disinformation such as *false context* or *manipulated content* [\[uiowa.edu\]][2].

(Who knew that 'false news' was one of 'the seven types of fake news'? That's a pretty catchy title…)
 



  [1]: https://phys.org/news/2019-11-fake-news-aiding.html
  [2]: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/c.php?g=972061&p=7025514