Jonathan Ablard, History, published "Rumors, Pescado Podrido and Disinformation in Interwar in Argentina" in the Journal of Social History (Oxford University Press) with coauthor Dr. Ernesto Bohoslavsky. The article was part of a special section of the journal entitled “Interpretive Challenges in the Archive: Rumor, Forgery, and Denunciation in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
This article identifies how and why Argentine political rumors were created, spread, and legitimized by government officials, military officers and the press in the interwar years. In that period, the practice of what we now call “fake news”—known as pescado podrido (rotten fish) in Argentina for it poisons the one who hears or repeats it—became more common and took on international proportions.