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How I Contributed to the Fake News Epidemic

I was reading a post at Mashable about the story about the 13 year-old who bought a hooker with his dad’s credit card. For those that don’t know, that was a fake story drummed up by an expert Internet marketer to gain backlinks for his client1. This technique is called “linkbait”. Unfortunately, it worked so [...]
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Bush Unaware – my butt

Oops! – Bush Unaware Mikes Were Still On – Yahoo! News The headlines say that President Bush didn’t know that the mikes were still on after he had reporters leave his “retreat” with Congressional Republicans. And so the public was able to hear some of his “private” remarks about the NSA program. Poor silly [...]
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