1986: PRESIDENT Lincoln Ordered The ARREST OF JOURNALISTS For Fake News!
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=70018 Quote: In May of 1864, Joseph Howard, Jr., a reporter in New York, printed a false presidential proclamation in two major New York newspapers. The proclamation, purportedly coming from President Lincoln, called for the draft of additional new troops into the Union Army. Lincoln was not amused, ordering the general in charge of the … Read more