In 1938, a radio broadcast just shook the nation.

It was the dramatization of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, which many mistook as breaking news, believing what they were hearing was an actual alien invasion.

Wait a minute, something's happening.

Humped shape is rising out of the pit, and then make out a small beam of light against a mirror.

What's that?

There's a jet of flame springing from the mirror that leaps right at the advancing men.

It strikes them head on.

Lord, they're turning into flames.

Now the whole field's qualified by the woods that The gas tank tank to the automobiles spreading everywhere

When I hear about fake news today

I think of that radio broadcast

Because as technology advances

It's becoming harder to distinguish what's true and what's not

Just listen to what happened when BuzzFeed hit

the streets to ask about fake news. Real news or fake news? Did Donald Trump say

this to People magazine in 1998? If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're

the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up.

I bet my numbers would be terrific.

He said that. That is true.

I know that for a fact.

I think it's real.

It's real.

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