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n times when the news is flooded with articles warning about the destructive force of misinformation campaigns, is it easy to forget that misinformation is probably as old as information itself. Donald Trump might have made the terms “Fake News,” “Alternative Facts” and “Covfefe” household phrases, but © Beny Shlevich/Flickr
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he is far from the first to play on the fragility of factual information and the power of people's imagination. We are always to a certain extent viewing reality through the lens of our own knowledge and experiences—which brings us to the topic of Soviet children’s television. Cheburashka, often seen as the Mickey Mouse of the
