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Fakery ban old news..
Daily Star
|August 01, 2025
FAKE news was first banned in 1275 - proving that it is a far older concept than we thought, a historian has revealed.
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Prof Fara Dabhoiwala said that as governments became more complex they cracked down on "seditious speech" and "dangerous misinformation".
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