Darnton, Robert2020-05-19Robert Darnton. 2017. The True History of Fake News. The New York Review of Books.0028-7504http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42667781In the long history of misinformation, the current outbreak of fake news has already secured a special place, with the president’s personal adviser, Kellyanne Conway, going so far as to invent a Kentucky massacre in order to defend a ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries. But the concoction of alternative facts is hardly rare, and the equivalent of today’s poisonous, bite-size texts and tweets can be found in most periods of history, going back to the ancients.en-USCommentary or Review2017-12-0420172020-05-19