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Deborah Kozdras: University of South Florida Stavros Center
• 1782, Benjamin Franklin concocted an entirely fake issue of a real Boston newspaper, the Independent Chronicle.
• Franklin fabricated a story from the New York frontier : American forces had discovered bags containing more than 700 SCALPS from our unhappy Country-folks.” There were bags of boys’, girls’, soldiers and even infants’ scalps, all allegedly taken by Indians in league with King George.
• Sent copies to his colleagues insisting it was true.
Wrote to a friend (Richard Price) about the power of the news . . .
The ancient Roman and Greek Orators could only speak to the Number of Citizens capable of being assembled within the Reach of their Voice: Their Writings had little Effect because the Bulk of the People could not read. Now by the Press we can speak to Nations; and good Books & well written Pamphlets have great and general Influence. The Facility with which the same Truths may be repeatedly enforc’d by placing them daily in different Lights, in Newspapers which are every where read, gives a great Chance of establishing them. And we now find that it is not only right to strike while the Iron is hot, but that it is very practicable to heat it by continual Striking.—
• What does the phrase “fake news” mean?• When have you or someone you know fallen for or shared fake or inaccurate news of some kind?• Why does it matter if we can’t tell real news from fake news?
Nearly four in 10 high school students believed, based on the headline, that this photograph of deformed daisies provided strong evidence of toxic conditions near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, even though no source or location was given for the photo.