Publication of the Zinoviev Letter

Date: October 25, 1924 • Location: London, United Kingdom

The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, a hoax purported to be a directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation.

The Daily Mail, often known simply as the Mail, is a British daily middle-market tabloid-size conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982, a Scottish edition was launched in 1947, and an Irish edition in 2006. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline news website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor.