Online hoaxes
Indonesia's 2019 Election Is Keeping Fake News Fact Checkers Way Too Busy
In part one of "Mass Confusion," writer Adi Renaldi meets the people who are trying to combat the spread of hoaxes in the run-up to April's election.
Would You Pay To Fix Fake News?
Wikipedia's co-founder thinks you’ll pay for crowdsourced journalism that's free of fake news.
Why This Guy Faked a Scientific Study that Got Massive Hype
The study, which purportedly showed chocolate can aid weight loss, was covered around the globe.
The Truth About Kenji, the Robot Programmed to Love
It was a slightly chilling and totally titillating narrative, and it played directly into our science fiction-fed imaginations—the ones still avidly populated by increasingly sentient and sure-to-short-circuit robots. It was also a complete hoax.
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