Paké Zane tapped into his seemingly endless treasure chest at Antique Alley and came up with this example of fake news, local style.
It’s the front page of the Honolulu Advertiser edition on December 8, 1941.
“Saboteurs land here!”
“Raiders return in dawn attack”
Paké noted:
The police phone logs from the following days were filled with reports of parachute dropping out of the sky all over Oahu, with people seeing “the enemy” coming out of the hills. Many people wearing white in the valleys (same color as the aformentioned parachutes) were beaten up as were many others in the city. There was no retraction, that I know of, by the Advertiser, but there was a lot of pilikia because of that FAKE NEWS HAWAIIAN STYLE.
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It seems as though the Pearl Harbor attack wild stories were more from panic and fear, the type engendered by war. That’s very different from the deliberate, malicious attacks created by hackers on their computers to make money.
The Advertiser had borrowed the Star-Bulletin presses (their’s had broken down a day earlier) and had definite intentions of “Scooping” them by printing unsubstantiated SENSATIONAL headlines to outsell the competitor. This was surely a money making move (selling more newspapers, creating ‘panic and fear’). I think it was deliberate but not intended to be as malicious as it turned out.
Info from email obtained through Wikileaks isn’t “fake news,” no matter how many times that is claimed. Could anyone point out for me a single email from Wikileaks that has proven to be falsified or fabricated?
The info describing DNC/Clinton team attempts to sabotage Sanders’ campaign might be embarrassing and incriminating. But “fake?” Can anyone prove it?