Hunting Fake History

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse AKA Fake History Hunter

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, better known as The Fake History Hunter, is on a one-woman mission to hunt down fake history and reclaim the truth for the rest of us.

She talks about her work as a fake history hunter on social media.

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About Jo

I’ve been obsessed with history since childhood, worked for film/tv as a historical consultant/researcher for decades, then started hunting fake history online, got a book deal, wrote a best selling book.

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Fake History Book

From the famous quote ‘Let them eat cake’ – mistakenly attributed to Marie Antoinette – to the apocryphal horns that adorned Viking helmets, fake history continues to shape the story we tell about who we are and how we got here. With doctored photographs, AI-generated images and false claims about the past circulating in the news and on social media, separating fact from fiction seems harder than ever before.