During his last years in power, Saddam was living in a bubble, a fake world sealed off from the real world by underlings too scared to tell him anything other than a pack of lies.
Nordby immediately set his sights on The Onion -- whose products include a fake atlas, Our Dumb World -- as a potential partner.
The most famous is the News of the World's own "fake sheikh", Mazher Mahmood, its investigations editor.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that up to a tenth of the world's medicines are fake.
The culture-bending nature of the whole fake conflict is precisely what makes it food-world gossip worthy.
Replacement parts like oil filters, headlamps, batteries, brake pads, fan belts, windshields and spark plugs, packaged with fake logos, are turning up all over the world, including the U.S. The carmakers say safety is at issue.
Rumsfeld's logic was correct, I believe, but it was no excuse for the American and British governments to mislead themselves and the world, as they did, by giving credit to fake evidence or assuming that if weapons items were "unaccounted for" that they must exist.
In the world of video games however, it was harder to find fake love.
In similar fashion, the world's poor are vulnerable to the growing trade in fake cigarettes, which often contain more harmful ingredients than those sold legitimately.
In a recent Forbes post, Tara Tiger Brown argues that fake geeks and poseurs of all stripes should just butt out of her world and stop trying to pretend.
In developing regions like Asia and Latin America, counterfeits are a growing concern, as many as 30 percent of the drugs sold there are fake and in India, that number is 20% according to the World Health Organization.
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Unsurprisingly, drug companies around the world are fearful that their brand will be shunned if news of a fake gets out.
If I was that exploring teenager, of course, and the whole world had flipped the Facebook switch, I could always just make a fake Facebook account, for sure.
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In the weird world of Web 2.0, new forms of entertainment such as Second Life and fake CEO blogs blur the boundary between what is real and fake.
In 2009, the group identified 2, 003 drug-counterfeiting incidents world-wide, based on law-enforcement actions, regulators' warnings and company announcements that fake drugs had been discovered.
According to Network World, some 22.4 percent of Google searches performed since June produced malicious URLs (such as fake antivirus sites or malware downloads) as part of the top 100 search results, as opposed to 13.7 percent in the second half of 2009.
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