Quartz: Fake news isn’t a recent problem in the US—it almost destroyed Abraham Lincoln

Fake news isn't a recent problem in the US—it almost destroyed Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was more than just a foe of slavery. He was also a mixed-race eugenicist, believing that the intermarriage of blacks and whites would yield an American super-race.

Or at least, that's what newspapers in 1864 would have had you believe. The charge isn't true. But this miscegenation hoax still "damn near sank Lincoln that year," says Heather Cox Richardson, history professor at Boston College.......