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How Stories Deceive
A young woman fooled the governments of three countries. What does her con reveal about how we see the world? By Maria Konnikova.
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Loch Ness: The greatest PR stunt of the century
One evening, when I was growing up on Exmoor, my father returned home with some news. He had just seen a large black cat – a panther, he supposed – on the horizon. He reported the sighting to the local farmer, who was not at all surprised, for he, too, had seen this ominous beast... Rupert Hawksley.
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Facebook Privacy Hoax Once Again Dupes Millions Of Users, Clutters News Feed
Facebook is all about trends. One moment you're being bombarded with blood moon pictures taken of the supermoon lunar eclipse, and the next you're wading through hoax messages from friends and family who should know better than to post these things. There are two such messages making the rounds at this very moment.
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What lies beneath
Why do archaeological fraudsters work so hard to deceive us? Because bad science makes for good stories. By Ted Scheinman.
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Behind the greatest Wikipedia hoax ever pulled
Yuri Gadyukin did not owe money to a gangster. His final film was not swirling out of control. Weathers did not kill him. His body was not found beneath the Hammersmith Bridge. Gadyukin never died, in fact, because he never existed...
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This Is What It's Like To Fall In Love With A Woman Who Doesn't Exist
Leah Palmer was a high-flying fashionista with a jet-setting lifestyle and a host of admirers on social media. But her entire existence was a fraud – a multi-year hoax that depended on stealing someone else’s life. BuzzFeed News tells the extraordinary story.
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Bigfoot film stabilized
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This year's dumbest astrophysics hoax fooled over a million Facebook users
Over the past few weeks, there's a good chance that someone on your Facebook News Feed has shared a story about a once-in-a-lifetime planetary alignment happening on January 4, 2015. The interplanetary gravitational pull of the galactic event will, seemingly miraculously, counteract Earth's gravity for a short period of time, rendering everyone on the planet briefly weightless. This story was picked up by a few small viral sites like...
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