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by ZebZ 2596 days ago
I'm reminded of the "Rathergate" incident that got Dan Rather fired from CBS, where they went to air with documents critical of George Bush that were clumsily faked, purporting that a typewritten document from 1973 used Times New Roman in the exact same size and spacing of Word's default settings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authenticity...

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I remember being astonished when I first saw images of the purported documents. I could not believe this got past anyone at CBS news, let alone Dan Rather. Did they have no memory of what manual typewriter type face looked like?