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His uniform and medals were purchased online. A military impostor is a person who makes false claims about their military service in civilian life. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] This includes claims by people that have never been in the military as well as lies or embellishments by genuine veterans. Some individuals who do this also wear privately obtained ...
Fictitious or fake entries are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and directories, added by the editors as copyright traps to reveal subsequent plagiarism or copyright infringement. There are more specific terms for particular kinds of fictitious entry, such as Mountweazel, trap street ...
The New York Times was criticized for the work of reporter Walter Duranty, who served as its Moscow bureau chief from 1922 through 1936.Duranty wrote a series of stories in 1931 on the Soviet Union and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at that time; however, he has been criticized for his denial of widespread famine, most particularly the Holodomor, the Ukraine famine in the 1930s.
Romanov impostors. From left to right, Grand Duchesses Anastasia and Olga; Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchesses Tatiana and Maria with Cossacks in 1916. Courtesy: Beinecke Library. Members of the ruling Russian imperial family, the House of Romanov, were executed by a firing squad led by Yakov Yurovsky in Yekaterinburg, Russia ...
A digital fake refers to a digital video, photo, or audio file that has been altered or manipulated by digital application software. Deepfake videos fall within the category of digital fake media, but a video may be digitally altered without being considered a deepfake. The alterations can be done for entertainment purposes, or more nefarious ...
Cardiff Giant. The Cardiff Giant being exhumed during October 1869. The Cardiff Giant displayed at the Bastable in Syracuse, NY, circa 1869. The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), roughly 3,000 pound [1] purported " petrified man", uncovered on October 16, 1869 by ...
A fake Midjourney-created image of Donald Trump being arrested [181] In March 2023, a series of images appeared to show New York Police Department officers restraining Trump. [ 182 ] The images, created using Midjourney , were initially posted on Twitter by Eliot Higgins but were later re-shared without context, leading some viewers to believe ...
Sock puppet account. In Internet terms, sock puppets are online identities used for disguised activity by the operator. A sock puppet is a false online identity used for deceptive purposes. [1] The term originally referred to a hand puppet made from a sock. Sock puppets include online identities created to praise, defend, or support a person or ...