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  2. List of hoaxes - Wikipedia

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    The Big Donor Show, a hoax reality television program in the Netherlands about a terminally ill woman donating her kidneys to one of three people requiring a transplantation. C. W. Blubberhouse, whose letters in UK national newspapers were exposed as a hoax by the Sunday Times.

  3. Category:Hoaxes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Misinformation - Wikipedia

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    Social media has made information readily available to society at anytime, and it connects vast groups of people along with their information at one time. [16] Advances in technology have impacted the way people communicate information and the way misinformation is spread. [13]

  5. Tania Head: One of the biggest frauds in history pretended to ...

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    Tania Head had one of the most harrowing accounts from 9/11 and eventually became the president of a survivor's network, but the Spanish woman was ultimately proved to be a fraud and wasn't even ...

  6. Fake news - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] Although false news has always been spread throughout history, the term fake news was first used in the 1890s when sensational reports in newspapers were common. [5] [6] Nevertheless, the term does not have a fixed definition and has been applied broadly to any type of false information presented as news. It has also been used by high ...

  7. Hoax - Wikipedia

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    The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is the writer Virginia Woolf.. A hoax (plural: hoaxes) is a widely publicised falsehood created to deceive its audience with false and often astonishing information, with the either malicious or humorous intent of causing shock and interest in as many people as possible.

  8. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. List of religious hoaxes - Wikipedia

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    One of the men later admitted to the ruse and modern dating confirmed they are 19th-century forgeries. [25] [26] Salamander letter – document alleging certain visions of Mormon leader Joseph Smith that were at odds with the Church's views which proved to have been created by Mark Hofmann in the 1980s. Part of a larger trove of fake documents ...