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[[Barack Hussein Obama]] was a firm believer in projecting what was news and what was fake news. He would famously deride publicly against the reporting of "[[Fox News]], [[Rush Limbaugh]] and talk radio." [[Bill Clinton]] engaged in similar behavior during an interview with [[Chris Wallace]] shortly after the airing of the edited version of The Path to 9/11.
 
[[Barack Hussein Obama]] was a firm believer in projecting what was news and what was fake news. He would famously deride publicly against the reporting of "[[Fox News]], [[Rush Limbaugh]] and talk radio." [[Bill Clinton]] engaged in similar behavior during an interview with [[Chris Wallace]] shortly after the airing of the edited version of The Path to 9/11.
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=== Early examples of fake news ===
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Here are some early examples of fake news:
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#The false claim, based on manipulation of the data, by Sir [[Arthur Eddington]] that the 1919 total eclipse of the sun proved the [[General Theory of Relativity]].
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#The false reporting by the bigot [[H.L. Mencken]] on the [[Scopes Trial]].
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#[[The War of the Worlds]] broadcast on [[Halloween]] night, 1938, in which Orson Wells dramatically described an invasion by hostile Martians in [[New Jersey]].
    
== Identifying fake news ==
 
== Identifying fake news ==
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