Since around the autumn of 2016, the term 'fake news' has been bandied around en masse. Obviously it is far from being a newish phenomenon, as I am sure there was already plenty of it doing the rounds back in 2008-09 during both the Credit Crunch (global financial crisis) and the Swine Flu pandemic, which I am pretty sure exacerbated the former, and I vividly remember the likes of the Fail, Depress, Scum, etc constantly spewing out OTT sensationalist headlines about it. In fact, even The Mirror, Guardian, Independent, etc were also at it on several occasions. Does anyone else on this forum recall any significant instances of 'misinformation'/'fake news' prior to the 2010s (when the term 'fake news' entered common parlance)?