The History of Fake News

Fake news is such a menacing idea in the 21st century but there was a time in the 90s when there was a supermarket tabloid called the weekly world news which was fake news. This was also at the time that Photoshop was first emerging and so it was sort of a combination of this early use of Photoshop to create these crude images where the to create some some facade of believability. The most famous story they had was Batboy found in cave right and there was a whole saga iconic image of this bat child yesYes I always thought of it as a kind of like like it like an heir to what PT Barnum was at one point for culture It was kind of like where the