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Not as Web Savvy as You Think

Researchers also asked students questions about websites they chose. After using Google to get to a website, this interaction occurred…

14 years ago

‘Fakeosphere’ latest Web trap for consumers

Welcome to the "fakeosphere." Internet marketing veteran and analyst Jay Weintraub says fake blogs - or flogs - fake news…

14 years ago

Hostage ruse’s fake Web site irks group with similar name

Fascinating stuff... according to CNN, the story is, in order to secure the release of 15 hostages, the Colombian military…

16 years ago

Still Not the News: Stations Overwhelmingly Fail to Disclose VNRs

Video news releases are pre-packaged broadcast segments designed to look like television news stories, that are funded by and scripted…

17 years ago

FCC probes ‘fake news’ at U.S. TV stations

Among the video news releases uncovered were an item on ethanol plants aired on a Louisiana station that was created…

18 years ago

Web hoax fools news services: S.F. man fakes beheading, proves need for verification

For almost an hour Saturday morning, the Associated Press reported that a 22-year-old San Francisco man, Benjamin Vanderford, had been…

20 years ago

AP Style Fake News No Longer Funny

NEW YORK (AP) -- Writers of parody news were saddened to learn Monday that merely writing their stories in the…

21 years ago

Ethics of Paper’s Fake Arson Story Debated

"King County prosecutors and sheriff's detectives asked the editors at the Eastside Journal, now called the King County Journal, to…

21 years ago