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

1 points by fforflo 9y ago ↗ HN

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?

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wieiocoooc 9y ago ↗

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

wieiocoooc 9y ago ↗

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