False rumors of an alleged Wampanoag uprising on Nantucket Island in 1738 were turned into a story of an Indian rebellion thwarted via a Boston newspaper.

But it didn't work. The rumor, spread by the underground press in 1967, probably led to many disappointed hippies.

Compiled by graduate students in a 2016 course on “Activism and Digital Culture,” at University of Southern California.

Ten lessons from the past and steps we can take now to educate ourselves and our students about how to be a thoughtful consumer of information.

Canada has taken steps to address the potential for online misinformation ("fake news") in its upcoming election, but the internet changes rapidly.

Fake news is spread through online communities that become echo-chambers of like-minded ideas. What's your online community like?

Skeptical, self-aware interaction with digital data is the critical foundation upon which democracy may be maintained, explains media scholar Alexandra Juhasz.

Fake news has plenty of precedents in the history of mass media, and particularly, in the history of American journalism.