{"id":2864,"date":"2026-08-19T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:59:10","slug":"fake-news-part-ii-faking-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2864","title":{"rendered":"Fake News, Part II: Faking for Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/61\/611734_1_.jpeg?ssl=1\" \/><br \/>March 10, 1972, was supposed to be a blockbuster day in the literary world. Publisher McGraw-Hill planned to unveil &quot;The Autobiography of Howard Hughes,&quot; an as-told-to book midwifed by novelist and investigative journalist Clifford Irving. The book promised to lift the curtain on one of the most fascinating personalities of the age. The reclusive billionaire was a famed aviation visionary, Las Vegas gambling tycoon, movie mogul, beau to beautiful stars, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 10, 1972, was supposed to be a blockbuster day in the literary world. Publisher McGraw-Hill planned to unveil &quot;The Autobiography of Howard Hughes,&quot; an as-told-to book midwifed by novelist and investigative journalist Clifford Irving. The book promised to lift the curtain on one of the most fascinating personalities of the age. The reclusive billionaire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[4666,4667,4668,810,647],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-fake","tag-faking","tag-fun","tag-news","tag-part"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}