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News Hoaxes

By jerz on April 11, 2006 5:22 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Wired has an interesting article that focuses on one particular case, but offers an overview of other incidents:

Wired News: Lying Through Their Teeth

In an era where media fraud has become easier to catch and diffuse, the media is itself a victim of fraud or exaggeration, perhaps more often than it would like to admit. From a fake press release that caused Emulex's stock to tank in 2000, to 2004's toothing scandal and the recently revealed faked stem-cell research results, hoaxes happen. And sometimes, those that are uncovered retain their status as truth for a long time.

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