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His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers For example: “Figgers also has a l
by peteretep 5y ago
His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers
For example: “Figgers also has a license spectrum band from FCC”. The citations there are a student-run uni newspaper in Ghana, and the news site of a Florida State University radio station.
If the guy isn’t all he claims, he’s done an excellent job of layering together successive Wikipedia-credible sources and then using those as a springboard to more and more credible news stories, culminating in coverage in WashPo and the BBC.
I am pretty skeptical, but if I’m right to be, also pretty impressed by his press coverage game.
- matsemann 5y agoReminds me of Citogenesis, how things repeated enough becomes truth. https://xkcd.com/978/ https://xkcd.com/978/
- nexuist 5y agoHe's clearly in the wrong field. He should be doing PR for megacorps with these results.
- robjan 5y agoThis is quite common in the product world. Even before the internet we had "as seen on TV" where people would go to extreme lengths to get their product mentioned either on some magazine show or, failing that, just an informercial. They then have a circular reference which can be used to gain legitimacy when trying to get covered in a more prestigious publication.
- axaxs 5y agoThat is a very...strange wiki. If not self written, then perhaps written based on spoken self accounts. Also, I know of no place in Florida called "Coral Gates." Perhaps the transcriber misheard.