“FAKE” NEWS VIA THE COMIC : DISTORTION OF INFORMATION

Abstract

The article focuses on the dominant ways of the comic actualization of irony and sarcasm as the types of comic sense, humour and satire as full forms of the comic in “fake” news. The comic is based on the discrepancy or contradiction between the form and the content, the aim and the ways of its achievement, visibility and essence. The difference between subtypes of the comic lies in the shade of laughter and orientation to a particular phenomenon / object. In media space "fake" news "distorts" real events, things, feelings and it appears to be deceptive, false, masquerade. Such a "twist" is characterized by humorous or satirical colouring. “Fake” news demonstrates intentional misrepresentation as a means of discriminating a certain person or group of individuals; misinformation, misleading of the reader; infotainment; drawing attention to key social issues etc. Irony illustrates the complete absurdity and hyperbolization of a social phenomenon; grotesque and parody arise the conflict resulted in unmasked presentation of contempt. Humour is based on the author’s witty tricks and semantic word play not excluding the form of presentation; satire discrediting the person favours the creation of a caricature image.