Satire – Saturday Night Live skits about Trump.
Fake news – a news outlet claiming Hillary Clinton is involved in a pizza parlor child pornography ring.
I believe the difference is that satire is a method of communication in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
Fake news is that wihich I either disagree with or am unwilling to accept because it is put out with the express purpose of discounting or discrediting the facts that I hold to be true.
While satire may technically be news that is fake, it’s not fake news in the sense that it doesn’t claim to be unadulterated truth. Fake news also differs from biased news in that biased news may be factually correct with opinion injected into it, fake news on the other hand is not factually correct and deliberately so.
Intent. The Onion, for example, doesn’t try to deceive people. Breitbart, on the other hand, does. Also tone. Again, The Onion – if you can’t tell that their articles are meant to be humorous then there’s something wrong with you.
Maybe the question should be what the difference is between satire and real news. I just came across this article. The writers of South Park have given up competing with Trump.