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Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve and the 75th anniversary of the Orson Welles radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel “War of the Worlds”, first published in 1898. The radio broadcast apparently frightened a number of people, but the “widespread panic” that supposedly ensued was overstated. Some people missed the opening which provided a context – that it was clearly a fiction – and the fake news broadcasts that subsequently followed did the rest. More info here.

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