The wave of fake news that flooded Facebook and other social media during last year's election campaign was a wake-up call for many. But fake news has actually been around for a long time. Seventy-five years ago, regional newspapers in the South falsely reported that first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was quietly organizing black women into secret "Eleanor Clubs," with the motto: "A white woman in the kitchen by 1943." In the digital era, that kind of rumor can spread far and worldwide, in no time.