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Hoax - Wikipedia
WEBA hoax is often intended as a practical joke or to cause embarrassment, or to provoke social or political change by raising people's awareness of something. It can also emerge from a marketing or advertising purpose.
Hoax | Identifying & Debunking Misinformation | Britannica
WEBHoax, a falsehood generally intended to fool and to entertain. A hoax is often a parody of some occurrence or a play upon topics that are newsworthy. Media hoaxes are among the most common type. Recorded cases of hoaxes can be found from at least the 1600s, when the nature of information dispersal.
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Misinformation, Disinformation and Hoaxes: What's the …
WEBApr 21, 2021 · Hoaxes, similar to disinformation, are created to persuade people that things that are unsupported by facts are true. For example, the person responsible for the celebrity-death story has created...
Explore 6 of history’s most infamous scams and hoaxes
WEBMar 30, 2023 · While April 1 is now associated with harmless pranks, major hoaxes linked to ghosts, emperors, catastrophes, and holy private parts have jolted the world in centuries past. Dating back some 800...
What Is A Hoax? - Museum of Hoaxes
WEBA hoax is an outrageous, ingenious, dramatic, or sensational act of deception that captures the attention (and often the imagination) of the public. Great hoaxes, like the Great Moon Hoax of 1835 and the Cardiff Giant, manage to create a sense of …
Hoaxes Archives - FactCheck.org
WEBFeb 16, 2018 · Old Hoax Shows Up in Posts About Nashville School Shooter. March 29, 2023. False claims about the shooter at a Christian elementary school in Nashville have been swirling on social media. Police...
Welcome to the Museum of Hoaxes
WEBThe Museum of Hoaxes was established in 1997. It explores deception, mischief, and misinformation throughout history, playing host to a variety of humbugs and hoodwinks — from ancient fakery all the way up to modern schemes, dupes, …
List of hoaxes - Wikipedia
WEBThe following is a list of hoaxes: Exposure hoaxes. These types of hoaxes are semi-comical or private "sting operations" intended to expose people. They usually encourage people to act foolishly or credulously by falling for patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality. The Atlanta Nights hoax novel.
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