In 1989, when people opened their newspapers to read that a missing 1950s airliner had turned up 35 years later, complete with 92 skeletons on board, there was an understandable level of skepticism. But ‘fake news’ wasn’t a familiar issue then, and plenty believed the report. The article, written by Irwin Fisher in the Weekly World News, alleged that a Lockheed L-1409 Super Constellation, missing since 1954, had reappeared on October 12th, 1989,…
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