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>HOW FAR BACK DID IT GO?
"You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx." –JFK (The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961)
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/american-newspaper-publishers-association-19610427
~1851 when the fake news started.
In 1851:
September 18 – The New York Times is founded.
October – The Reuters news service is founded.
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley
This "obscure newspaper man" (Horace Greely) looks like the Mad Hatter (pic)