In 1835, a British astronomer called John Herschel went to the south of Africa to observe the Moon. His observations, that were kind of unusual, had been reported in the ‘’ New York Sun ‘’news paper, a not so popular newspaper at this time. The article went viral and made the ‘’Sun’’ even more popular than the ‘’Times of London’’. The circulation of the report went to over 19,000 copies. That is a lot for an old newspaper. What the readers did not know is that the article had been written by the editor himself. The entire article was, as we would say today, fake news. It is at this moment…