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  2. List of hoaxes - Wikipedia

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    The tourist guy, a fake photo of a tourist at the top of the World Trade Center building on 9/11 with a plane about to crash in the background. Trodmore Racecourse, a fictitious Cornish race meeting. Taro Tsujimoto, a fictional Japanese ice hockey player selected by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1974 NHL amateur draft.

  3. The real story behind the viral 'Crabzilla' photo - AOL

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    By Gillian Pensavalle No, there's not a gigantic 50-foot crab hanging out in a small harbor town in the UK. Foiled again, Internet. Photoshop strikes again; the photo is fake. The photo made ...

  4. Civil War photo turns out to be a hoax - AOL

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    A highly sought-after Civil War photo that has been missing since '80s has turned out to be a hoax. Historians believed this photo that surfaced in 1986 was of the CSS Georgia battleship. The ...

  5. Hoax - Wikipedia

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    The English philologist Robert Nares (1753–1829) says that the word hoax was coined in the late 18th century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means "to cheat", "to impose upon" [3] or (according to Merriam-Webster) "to befuddle often with drugged liquor." [4] Hocus is a shortening of the magic incantation hocus pocus, [4] whose ...

  6. Fake news - Wikipedia

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    The fake news audience is only 10 percent of the real news audience, and most fake news consumers spent a relatively similar amount of time on fake news compared with real news consumers—with the exception of Drudge Report readers, who spent more than 11 times longer reading the website than other users. [230]

  7. Elon Musk’s AI photo tool is generating realistic, fake ...

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    Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok on Tuesday began allowing users to create AI-generated images from text prompts and post them to X. Almost immediately, people began using the tool to flood the ...

  8. Fictitious entry - Wikipedia

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    Games (a magazine devoted to games and puzzles) used to include a fake advertisement in each issue as one of the magazine's regular games. The book The Golden Turkey Awards describes many bizarre and obscure films. The authors of the work state that one film described by the book is a hoax, which they challenged readers to identify.

  9. NASA: Yes, it's freezing cold. No, that doesn't mean climate ...

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    Just because it's cold for a day, a week, or a season, it doesn't mean global warming is over. All months have been warming since recordkeeping began in 1880, including December.