Journalistic integrity

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Yet another one.

Student’s Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries – The Irish Times – Wed, May 06, 2009

A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world.

 

 

(19/06/2017 Addendum: It’s interesting to see these kind of posts, clearly before I began using Twitter to share tidbits of information I found interesting.)