Fake News isn't anything new. Sure social media has made the proliferation of doctored images, exaggerated tales, and non-existent statistics easy to share, but we, everyday humans, have been being duped by hoaxes a whole lot longer than since the invention of Facebook and Twitter.
Cons, scams, fakes, cures, and the like have existed for as long as humans it seems. The first recorded report of the Loch Ness Monster was in 563. The Shroud of Turin dates to 1390. Bigfoot footprints were cast in 1811. The Fox sisters claimed to be psychic mystics in 1848.
Some of the modern hoaxes our authors mention: Milli Vanilli's lip sync scandal (which happened right here in CT at Lake Compounce, when the area that's now the Haunted Graveyard was a concert venue), Flat Earth Theory (really????), faking the Moon landing, Walt Disney's frozen head, and of course vaccines and autism.
This would be a great references for courses on digital media and social media.
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