The author, Robert G. Parkinson, states in Fake News? That's a very old story that fake news has been around for a very long time, since our founding fathers, and that fake news is not a new thing. For years people have wrote fake news and made it look and sound real. For example, Ben Franklin wrote fake news on how Indians are horrible and are not Americans and will never be. Also, Franklin wrote a fake newspaper and it made it into real newspapers all around the states. Second, John Adams wrote a fake diary about spending evenings writing but, it was all fake to to undermine royal authority in Massachusetts. Fake news has been around for a long time and it got around to people for them to read it and believe it is true.
