If we pass up everything as a 'false flag', we can unknowingly harden our hearts to the possibility that something very evil and catastrophic has happened to civilians around the world with certain events.
It's very important to be cautious of believing everything we hear and see....but it's equally important to understand that evil is very real and does impact the way of life. And terrorists/wicked people do exist and create unimaginable evil.
If we go around saying 'none of this is real....it's all a movie, they're all actors, etc.....It can be a slap in a victim/s face/s over denying such wickedness and evil acts, when it could very well be real and really happening. I just feel uncomfortable passing up everything as 'not real, false flag, when it could be the very opposite.
I have literally never heard "fake flag" for this purpose until today.
Searching "fake flag" on communities yields no result.
Searching "fake flag" on Reddit yields no usable results in several pages.
Googling "fake flag" yields results of an unrelated experiment, and a result for Wikipedia's entry of false flag.
Bing is the same results.
Brave is the same results.
It was widely used during the Voat days when analyzing various events. It's an apt differentiator.
Used on one site, vs common nomenclature.
Outside of Voat, false flags are used to mean false flags of all kinds -- crisis actors or real victims both.
Regardless at this point we are arguing semantics which does no good for anyone really.