Sue Ellen Browder, a former Cosmo writer for 20 years, wrote fake news before “fake news” was ever a thing. Except she prefers not to call it that—not because she’s embarrassed to admit she wrote fake news (although she’s certainly not proud), but because she thinks the term “fake news” is too vague to understand. Instead, she prefers the term "propaganda." And decades later, she's coming clean about the lies she sold to help Cosmopolitan convince women that sexual liberation was the key to happiness and success.