Found this while browsing You Tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNshmEEZefE
The BBC showed this episode of its 'Thirty Minute Shorts' series, in 1968. Starring Donald Pleasence and Nigel Davenport, in a chillingly plausible tale of how mainstream news is ' faked' by a ' small group at the top' . As Donald Pleasence says, "News is the most highly developed form of fiction. The most difficult' .
While it's an fictional example, I have little doubt real 'fake' news works in a similar way, and it makes me wonder how bad it got before the internet started really taking off. This is why censorship is so important to them.
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