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post Tue 15th May 2012, 5:17pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />How the Professor who Fooled [b]Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit[/b]
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By Yoni Appelbaum T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet. A woman opens an old steamer trunk and ...



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This professor, he does not teach his students well enough. It is not that hard to come up with better hoaxes.
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />How Reddit Caught the Professor Who Fooled [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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This professor, he does not teach his students well enough. It is not that hard to come up with better hoaxes.

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