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A hoax is a widely publicised falsehood created to deceive its audience with false and often astonishing information, with the either malicious or humorous intent of causing shock and interest in as m
Great Moon Hoax
Great Moon Hoax
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The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835", was a series of six articles published in New York newspaper The Sun, beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of
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…were deluded into thinking that it was an authentic clip of a real accident at a real wedding; but a story in USA Today in 2009 revealed it was a hoax. Great Moon Hoax Governments sometimes spread false information to facilitate their objectives, such as going to war. These often come under the heading of black…
A lithograph of the hoax's "ruby amphitheater", as printed in The Sun
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Great Moon Hoax, Edinburgh Journal of Science, by Lilith de Thierry Freres