The corpse factory and the birth of "fake news" / (so-called)

[Hotspring 44]

The corpse factory and the birth of fake news

BBC article: 17 February 2017

In part, the article says:
“Think fake news is a new phenomenon? Think again. Dr David Clarke from Sheffield Hallam University looks at a 100-year-old story that fooled the world.

Fake news, false stories that masquerade as real news are not new.

In the spring of 1917 some of Britain's most influential newspapers published a gruesome story that has been called "the master hoax" - and I think we finally have proof about where it came from.
Britain was at the time trying to bring China into the war on the Allied side.
In February a story appeared in the English-language North China Daily News that claimed the Kaiser's forces were "extracting glycerine out of dead soldiers"....


The complete article is @: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38995205