What Misinformation Has To Do With Toilet Paper

Emily Buder, The Atlantic: Video
Thu, 03/19/2020 - 2:28pm

It started with an unsubstantiated rumor. “You can laugh now,” Johnny Carson said on The Tonight Show on December 19, 1973, “but there is an acute shortage of toilet paper.” There wasn’t—but it didn’t matter. The broadcast sent America into a mass panic. Millions of shoppers swarmed into grocery stores and began hoarding toilet paper.

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