Don’t believe everything in the paper Newspapers have been known to tell fake stories on purpose. One notorious case was printed by the New York Sun in 1835. It claimed that astronomers had seen evidence of life on the moon. The article went into detail about the types of weird and wonderful creatures they had discovered. The following month, the newspaper admitted it had made up the stories, but by this point the number of people reading the paper had greatly increased and helped the paper’s profits. Fake news is designed to affect how a person feels about a topic. This has been used on a global scale, too – even during wars.
some of the moon creatures described in the article
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