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- Stories that aren't true. These are entirely invented stories designed to make people believe something false, to buy a certain product, or to visit a certain website. Stories that have some truth, but aren't 100 percent accurate. For example, a journalist quotes only part of what a politician says, giving a false impression of their meaning.
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Apr 16, 2024 · In many cases, spotting a fake news story takes paying attention to the message and clues around it. In this example, American News features an image of President Ronald Reagan, a revered Republican, in its title logo, suggesting its partisanship.
- Elizabeth Brown
- 2017
Incidents like the #Pizzagate shooting signify one step in a long, dark trail of real world consequences caused by fake news. Experts explain this history and why these stories are so hard to...
Feb 22, 2022 · He was shot and in critical condition after a fight that involved — of all things — a pet dog. Just as the Daily Telegram predicted, the Daily News ran the story, too, and was caught red-handed. In fact, the name of the non-existent shooting victim, spelled backwards, is “We Fake News.”.
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- World War One Fake News
- War of The Worlds
Back in the mid-1700s, during the height of the Jacobite rebellion in Great Britain, seditious printers printed fake news, even going so far as to report that King George II was ill, in an attempt to destabilize the establishment. Such fake news was picked up by more reputable printers and republished, making it difficult to tell fact from fiction....
In May 1803, as Britain was preparing to end the Treaty of Amiens and declare war on France, a letter was hand delivered to Sir Charles Price, the Lord Mayor of London at the Mansion-house. Allegedly written by Lord Hawkesbury, and sealed with his personal seal, the letter claimed that the dispute with France was amicably settled. The Mayor at once...
On 21 August 1835, The New York Sun published a series of articles about the discovery of life on the moon. These were falsely attributed to a well known astronomer of the time named Sir John Herschel. The article reported that Herschel had made these discoveries using new “hydro-oxygen magnifiers” and went on to describe in believable scientific d...
Madame Marquet, the wife of an Algerian apothecary, claimed in December 1890 that she had been set upon and robbed while riding in the ladies compartment on a French train. The train had departed from Monte Carlo and on reaching Toulon, she told authorities that at some point in the journey while she was sleeping, a thief had made off with 7,000 fr...
In 1888, a series of brutal slayings in the Whitechapel district of East London were widely reported. Accounts of the eleven murders, typically involving prostitutes, were described in graphic detail in the newspapers of the time. Many tried to profit from the high profile case by spreading fake news. Two young men, full of drink, were arrested and...
In June 1897, reports out of New York were that Mark Twain was ‘dying in poverty in London’. That this was fake news was confirmed by Mark Twain himself. On 2 June 1897, an article headlined Mark Twain Amused, appeared in the New York Journal under the byline of Frank Marshall White. When reached for comment, Mark Twain told the reporter that he di...
In 1903, the Clarksburg Daily Telegram published a purposely fake news story in an effort to expose the Clarksburg Daily News who they knew were pilfering their articles. The story was about the shooting of “Mejk Swenekafew” near Columbia mines and predictably, it appeared the next day in the Daily News. The story told of how Swenekafew, a Slav liv...
In 1916, the price of eggs having risen to an unprecedented 80 cents a dozen in some parts of the country, the women of America decided to boycott eggs. By the end of November, there was a state-wide boycott of eggs planned by the women and public officials. The St Paul housewives in Minnesota declared a boycott on cold storage eggs. Milwaukee club...
In the spring of 1917, as World War One raged across Europe, both the Times and the Daily Mail in London published accounts from ‘anonymous sources’ that claimed they had visited a ‘Kadaver’ factory called Kadaververwertungsanstaltin Germany. This factory was said to extract glycerine from the corpses of the fallen to make soap and margarine. Now, ...
The fake news of an alien attack on America is a classic one. On Sunday, 30 October 1938, the Columbia Broadcasting network aired an adaptation of the 1898 novel War of the Worlds by HG Wells. During the broadcast, the first two thirds of the story were aired over the radio as a series of breaking news alerts and the effect was so realistic that ma...
Jul 4, 2019 · This CBC News guide will help you identify disinformation and misinformation online. (Illustration by David Morgan/CBC News) So you think a story, photo or video you've seen online might be...
The term fake news means “news articles that are intentionally and verifiably false” [1] designed to manipulate people’s perceptions of real facts, events, and statements. It’s about information presented as news that is known by its promoter to be false based on facts that are demonstrably incorrect, or statements or events that ...
Mar 5, 2021 · Fake news examples. You can learn to recognize fake news by familiarizing yourself with examples of fake news stories. Some of them are harmless, while others can be used to push destructive conspiracy theories. Here are some common types of fake news stories so you can better spot them.
