Fake news before the internet
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Fake news existed long before the Internet.
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By: Aurélien Devernoix
21 min
Fake news existed long before the Internet.
Stories, invented from scratch, were already the delight of fans of incredible stories.
From the Martians who fell on Earth on a meteorite, to rabbits invading a Parisian cemetery to devour the flesh of corpses, false information has come to challenge the credulity of the naive.
How did they spread, what was the context of their dissemination and the interests of those who spread them?
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