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Ask HN: Did anyone predict the advent of fake news on the WWW, 20 years ago?

Post by fforflo » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 9:50 AM UTC

My questions is if anyone predicted what we're discussing in 2017, back in say 2000. Were there any discussions on academia? Research papers or at a W3C level? Or, was everyone on the " information superhighway" bandwagon?

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone predict the advent of fake news on the WWW, 20 years ago?

Post by wieiocoooc » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 10:05 AM UTC

Fake news is not a new thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_World_News

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone predict the advent of fake news on the WWW, 20 years ago?

Post by wieiocoooc » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 10:08 AM UTC

Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_(supermarket_tabloid)

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