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Nothing new about ‘fake news’: Mark Twain and others penned phony newspaper stories in Virginia City

When readers see the names Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were among the original fake news writers in Nevada’s early years—a fact spotlighted in Richard Moreno’s new book, Frontier Fake News: Nevada’s Sagebrush Hoaxsters and Humorists. Martin Griffith, […]

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