Posts tagged as Hoaxes
The Real Times Square Video Hijack
This time it's not a hoax: man can actually hijack Times Square screens. Congrats, Adi Isakovic!
Steve Jobs Does Not Want You To Calm Down
Apple PR is saying that the e-mails sent from "Steve Jobs" telling a steamed iPhone 4 user to calm down about his new device's tech issues because "it is just a phone" are fakety fake fake fake.
Fanastic Italian Hoaxter Confesses
The great newspaper hoax artist Tommaso Debenedetti has confessed. He made up five interviews with Philip Roth alone, as well as interviews with dozens of others. His defense: "Italy is a joke." What a sad day for fun!
The End of the 00s: The Best Hoaxes of the Decade, by Val Temple
Val Temple, the producer of Cooking the Books, reenacts the most famous hoaxes of the 00s.
Australians Will Believe Anything
A study purporting to show Sydney as Australia's most gullible city was revealed to be a hoax, but not before it was widely reported as fact in the Australian media. One tipoff might have come from the fake report's explanation of methodology: "These results were completely made up to be fictitious material through a process of modified truth and credibility nodes."
