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Rummaging around in the wayback machine to check out some early #FakeNews™ - two websites mentioned in this @thenation piece from 2007 were tracking and debunking rumors from the right-wing email forward machine way back when... thenation.com/article/new-ri…
archive from January 2006 of breakthechain [dot] org (now offline) has a list of categories of #FakeNews and various scams that were circulating via email chains back then. web.archive.org/web/2006011107… 
Here's the Real but... category: "chains, while they contain true information, or started out as true and accurate, they've become inconsistent, full of lies, outdated or exaggerated. Most have been altered or manipulated so as to be of no value." web.archive.org/web/2005122813…
it's like a fake news time capsule web.archive.org/web/2005122013…
America At War Chains "prey on highly elevated emotions and greatly varied public opinion, but often contain incomplete, misleading or patently false information." web.archive.org/web/2005122816…
The other website mentioned in that @thenation piece is myrightwingdad [dot] net (archive) web.archive.org/web/2007102614… is also now offline. Looks like this blog tried to preserve all the various fonts in the right wing email chains they posted lol
Oh wait I found it on a new blogspot domain, some of it is preserved myrightwingdad.blogspot.com
anti-immigration chain email from 2007
John Ratliff from breakthechain dot org and Mike D’Asto from myrightwingdad dot net: the original fake news debunkers
