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Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: A brief history of fake news

From editors blatantly trying to sell papers by any means to columnists courting readers to publishers trying to shape national policy, the people believe the fake news as readily as they believe the truth.

by Carole Owens
Posted on February 13, 2018
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