Another Facebook chain letter, another hoax
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On Jun 6, 2012 by Michelle Jaworski
The long, fake life of J.S. Dirr: A decade-long Internet cancer hoax unravels
“Like a virus discovered deep in the guts of a nuclear plant,” Gawker’s Adrian Chen writes, “the Dirrs reveal startling vulnerabilities in the social web—how it masks lies, and boosts our ability to believe them.”
On Jun 6, 2012 by [email protected]
Suicide hoax rocks MetaFilter community
A fake obituary notice on MetaFilter caused grief and frustration on the 13-year-old forum.
On May 24, 2012 by Lauren Rae Orsini
“Chronicle of a Death Foretweeted”
Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Márquez fell victim to a Twitter death hoax on Tuesday morning.
On May 15, 2012 by Christian Yoder
Chris Brown killed by Twitter, again
Prank MTV News account sends singer’s death to the top of the charts.
On Apr 27, 2012 by Fruzsina Eördögh
The Hater: Die, Facebook memes, die
I blame Mark Zuckerberg for the new, stabbier News Feed.
On Feb 1, 2012 by Jordan Valinsky
Bon Jovi wanted Dead or Alive—preferably the latter
The hoax that put Bon Jovi into the grave before his time may be the best thing that happened to his career in a long time.
On Dec 19, 2011 by Lorraine Murphy
Radiohead protest concert one big hoax
Twitter was aflutter with tweets about a free Radiohead concert at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protest. One problem: It never happened.
On Sep 30, 2011 by Fruzsina Eördögh
Everyone will be a hoax for 15 minutes
Hey, not everything on the internet is a hoax…just most of it.
On Jun 10, 2011 by Owen Thomas
Facing a future where everyone’s a hoax for 15 minutes
Whaddaya know? On the Internet, not much. That’s what a week of hoaxes teaches us.
On Jun 10, 2011 by [email protected]
Another hoax: Tattoo of Facebook friends turns out to be temporary
A Dutch tattoo artist posted a video that showed a woman getting a tattoo of all her Facebook friends. The Web was abuzz with the story until it turned out to be yet another Internet faker.
On Jun 8, 2011 by [email protected]
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