Carlos Eguiguren
Fake News
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Carlos Eguiguren
Limited Edition 1/3
printed on Giclée Hahnemühle Photo Rag
19th Century.
One instance of fake news was the Great Moon Hoax of 1835. The Sun newspaper of New York published articles about a real-life astronomer and a made-up colleague who, according to the hoax, had observed bizarre life on the moon. The fictionalized articles successfully attracted new subscribers, and the penny paper suffered very little backlash after it admitted the next month that the series had been a hoax. Such stories were intended to entertain readers and not to mislead them.