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		jccalhoun on May 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Mas... Interestingly enough in the 18th century Benjamin Franklin wrote tons of fake news stories https://www.hudson.org/research/13133-benjamin-franklin-and-...

throwawayjava on May 8, 2018 [–]

I suppose if you consider The Onion fake news...

jccalhoun on May 9, 2018 | [–]

One of the sites I love to visit every few months is http://literallyunbelievable.org/ which has screen caps of people that don't know what The Onion is.

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