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The balloon hoax refers to a hoax orchestrated by Edgar Allan Poe in 1844, where he published a fictional news story about a transatlantic balloon trip to garner attention for his newspaper. The story was presented as a real event and caused confusion and excitement among readers before Poe revealed it to be a hoax.

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