Imedi TV
'Georgians were in for the shock of their lives on 13 March when the pro-government Imedi station reported Russian tanks were invading again, barely 18 months on from the short war of 2008,' TIME commented. 'In honour of this bizarre news hoax, TIME takes look at more of history's most outrageous deceptions.'
Saturday's Imedi TV broadcast takes top spot in the TIME list.
Other hoaxes in the list include Orson Welles' radio adaptation of the classic HG Wells novel The War of the Worlds. Broadcast on 30 October 1938 on the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network, the radio play — which took the form of a series of faux newscasts — caused many listeners to believe that an actual alien invasion was taking place.
The fake Hitler Diaries bought by German newsweekly Stern in 1983 and reports of Napoleon's death in 1814 were also cited.
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