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Alan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposed
- akolbe 4y agoA similar story published by the Washington Post a few years ago, about an inventively named aboriginal deity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/15/the-great-wikipedia-hoax/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04... On topics like this it is necessary to double-check with 20th-century publications.
- dang 4y agoDiscussed recently: Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33667882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33667882 - Nov 2022 (70 comments) Does anybody know if we can reliably rewrite bbc.com to bbc.co.uk or vice versa? It's a big hole in HN's dupe detector.