The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France’s first
daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of
disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal
division. To attract a large readership and bar competition for
C.W. Gluck’s works at the Paris Opéra, it launched a prolonged
campaign of anonymous lies, mockery, and defamation against two
prominent members of the Académie Française who wished the Opéra
to be open to all deserving composers but lacked a comparable daily
forum with which to defend themselves. In this unique episode,
music served as a smokescreen for nefarious activity. No musical
knowledge is necessary to follow this purely political drama.
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