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First thing I do after reading this story: search online to make sure this is not itself a hoax. Seems legitimate though, or somebody has planned the hoax since
by howling 11y ago
First thing I do after reading this story: search online to make sure this is not itself a hoax. Seems legitimate though, or somebody has planned the hoax since 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I,_Libertine&oldid=317560497 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I,_Libertine&oldi...
- chkuendig 11y agoHere's the WSJ article mentioned: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/wsj/doc/132305472.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Aug+1%2C+1956&author=BY+CARTER+HENDERSON+Staff+Reporter+of+THE+WALL+STREET+JOURNAL&pub=Wall+Street+Journal+%281923+-+Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=Night+People%27s+Hoax+On+Day+People+Makes+Hit+With+Book+Folks http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/wsj/doc/132305472.html?FMT=ABS&F... definitely no hoax.
- ams6110 11y agoWould be an awesome meta-hoax if it were. Are there any popular examples of this happening? A hoax that is itself a hoax?
- aaron695 11y agoThere's a joke on a hoax on a hoax - Bielefeld conspiracy. Pretty sure there's a hoax where people said an author? wasn't real. So the hoax was a persons existence was a hoax. But cannot cite. 'Hoax' brings up as much spam as 'free software' on Google. Perhaps the hoax was the person was made up for other reasons than a hoax, perhaps a lie or a joke. So it might not be meta.