Well, the thing is, fake news is actually really old. But you’re probably as sick of it as we are. But I’ve never noticed it.” It’s only been around for a few years. “Really, the word - I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with is ‘fake.’ I guess other people use it, perhaps, over the years. This is a story about a guy and a term he likes to think he invented. Meet the KGB cons who invented it, and the “truth squad” that quashed it. Transcript Meet the KGB Spies Who Invented Fake News We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted - the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax - went viral in the pre-Internet era.
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