Review of “Ian Hislop’s Fake News: A True History” (2019)
Seen in 2021.
From William H. Mumler’s fake photos to Deepfake videos, via US presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull’s libel suit against the British Library in the Pulitzer-Hearst era of cheaply printed sensationalism and the example of Kadaververwertungsanstalten as state-sponsored wartime fake news that undermined reports of the later Holocaust.
Told in a popular, presenter-centric, performative manner, but the material is remarkably good.