More harm done, I think, to AP and other news outlets who ran with the fake story.
Calling up a magazine and making up an entirely fake story in a sad attempt to ruin my relationship!
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So is this a ludicrous and almost certainly fake story?
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They posted a fake news story reporting that the late rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls had been hiding out in New Zealand.
Last month a university student was detained after being accused of posting a fake news story about a man killing eight village chiefs in the south-western province of Yunnan.
When the Duffel Blog published a fake news story claiming that a real Arizona lawmaker had told the troops to "go f themselves, " Mr. Sepulveda dispatched a tweet denouncing the politician.
Barely a year later, after the Stephen Glass fiasco (see "Forbes smokes out fake New Republic story on hackers, " Forbes Digital Tool, May 11), the online distribution of the Starr Report, and the proliferation of serious news outlets on the web, only the most undesirable demographic--the hopelessly uninformed--would dispute the legitimacy and power of online media.
The school investigated and on Jan. 16 after Deadspin.com broke the story of the fake girlfriend athletic director Jack Swarbrick announced at a news conference that Te'o had been duped.
Toward the story's end Fake Steve acknowledges he's something of a sociopath, but so what?
On Wednesday the AP printed a story based on a fake press release sent from a site designed to mirror the look and feel of a real corporate newsroom, even down to the logo.
According to Fake, Findery can be described as a location-based story-telling platform.
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She produced fake medical certificates on her home computer in a bid to back up her story.
The newspaper said the fake issue contained "funny stories about opposition politicians", with a front page story about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promising to prevent the end of the world.
The story was written by an active duty soldier in Afghanistan, who called it the crowning achievement of his fake news career.
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