FAKE news has always been around but the growth of social media and mobile technology in the last two years has radically changed the way people communicate, paving the way for the free flow of distorted and unfiltered information.

In 1693, a British printer named William Anderton was executed after a jury found him guilty of printing fake news about the monarchy. In 1835, The New York Sun published a series of articles about the discovery of life on the moon but after gaining readership, it admitted that it was a hoax. American author Mark Twain was reported in New York in 1897 to be dying in poverty in London. Twain himself confirmed that it was fake news. He died in 1910.

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