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Eva and Franco Mattes have perpetrated a number of hoaxes, including the fake Vatican web site "vaticano.org" and the fictitious artist Darko Maver. The Michael Guglielmucci cancer scandal, in which a pastor claimed to have terminal cancer. The Microsoft acquisition hoax, a 1994 hoax claiming that Microsoft had acquired the Roman Catholic Church.
[1] Book of Jasher – the name of a lost book mentioned several times in the Bible, which was subject to at least two high-profile forgeries in the 18th and 19th century. [2] [3] Gospel of Josephus – 1927 forgery attributed to Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, actually created by Italian writer Luigi Moccia to raise publicity for one of his ...
George Mason University's historical hoaxes; Giant penguin hoax; Giant human skeletons; Suicide of Joe Gliniewicz; Global Warming Hoax of 1874; Gorgeous Guy; Gospel of Jesus' Wife; Grave Creek Stone; Great Blue Hill eruption prank; Great Moon Hoax; Great Rose Bowl Hoax; Great Salt Lake whale hoax; Great Wall of China hoax; The Greek Psalter ...
In 1912 there was the "discovery" of a supposed missing link in human evolution known as the Piltdown Man or Dawson's Dawn Man. Regarding this famous hoax, Feder notes it consisted of a modern human-like cranium and a primitive ape-like jaw. Human ancestors were actually the opposite - having an ape-like cranium perched atop the post-cranial ...
Edward Owens (hoax) A hoax article written by university students as a class project, revealed as a hoax a month later and retained on Wikipedia after two deletion debates with no consensus at to whether is was a notable hoax. A third originally resulted in deletion before being overturned: 1 month
From premature obituaries to hoaxes, rumors and conspiracy theories, these stars turned out to be alive and well Celebrity Death Hoaxes: 51 Famous People Who Were Reported Dead… but Weren’t ...
Indonesia is reported to have the fourth-highest number of Facebook users in the world. [366] Indonesia has seen an increase in the amount of fake news and hoaxes on social media, particularly around elections in 2014 and 2019. [367] [368] This has been accompanied by increased polarization within the country. [369]
Here's a timeline of the legal fallout of Jones' inflammatory claims. Alex Jones is called up to testify at the Travis County Courthouse Tuesday Aug. 2, 2022, in Austin.