Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal
…rank, lie, deception, fraud, publicity stunt, etc? The Museum of Hoaxes, a website devoted to exploring “deception, mischief, and misinformation throughout history,” defines a hoax as a “deliberately deceptive act that has succeeded in capturing the attention (and ideally, the imagination) of the public… There is no such thing as a private hoax. A deception rises to the level of a hoax by achieving public notoriety.” Like Orson Welles’ Martian inv…
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