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How about Levitation Droplets. Check it out at
https://twitter.com/i/status/1604627919779024896

Totally harmless in their way, but there are much more sinister news items out there in the public domain.

Definition: Fake news is a neologism often used to refer to fabricated news. This type of news, found in tradition-
al news, social media or fake news websites, has no basis in fact, but is presented as being factually accurate.

Definition: Propaganda represents information, ideas, opinions, or images, often only giving one part of an argument,
that are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people’s opinions.

The biggest fake news story in history (or so I read) was a hoax started by a New York paper called the New York Sun
(Aug 25 1835).
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-moon-hoax

The originator of the hoax was ‘having a laugh really’ – a bit of satire - but the story went across the world – even with-
out the internet!