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The Mercury News
4 days ago
New York City

Police respond to hoax murder call at UC Santa Cruz off-campus apartment

Swatting call reported as a fake homicide generated a significant emergency response. [ more ]
www.santacruzsentinel.com
4 days ago
New York City

Police respond to hoax murder call at UC Santa Cruz off-campus apartment

Swatting calls can mimic serious emergencies causing unnecessary panic and diversion of emergency resources. [ more ]
Intelligencer
3 months ago
Digital life

Why Politicians Will Probably Keep Getting Swatted

Swatting is a dangerous hoax where a false emergency is reported to draw a heavily armed police response.
Swattings have become an epidemic among political figures due to lax tech-platform oversight and slow-moving law enforcement. [ more ]
www.mercurynews.com
3 months ago
US politics

California teen charged with serial swatting' after police say he made threats throughout the country

A 17-year-old from California is facing charges for hundreds of swatting incidents and bomb threats across the US.
Swatting has targeted celebrities, federal judges, lawmakers, state capitol buildings, and even the White House. [ more ]
moreswatting
www.nytimes.com
2 months ago
Digital life

Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46

The #EndFathersDay trend was a hoax originating from 4chan.
Shafiqah Hudson combated the hoax with the #YourSlipIsShowing hashtag. [ more ]
the Guardian
2 months ago
Books

Charli XCX prankster is latest in a long line of authors to fool the public

The email requesting to use the title of a novel for a music album was fake.
The writer, Gabriel Smith, enjoys creating internet pranks and satire. [ more ]
TechCrunch
2 months ago
Web development

Google is killing Gmail's basic HTML view in 2024 | TechCrunch

Google is not sunsetting Gmail despite a hoax suggesting so. Only the basic HTML view is being discontinued in January 2024.
The basic HTML view lacks features like chat, spell checker, and rich formatting, meant for low-connectivity situations. [ more ]
Sacramento Bee
3 months ago
California

Kidnapping of California woman that police called a hoax gets new attention with Netflix documentary

Denise Huskins' kidnapping case, initially dismissed as a hoax, is the subject of a new Netflix docuseries.
Huskins was kidnapped by a masked intruder who broke into her boyfriend's home and demanded an $8,500 ransom. [ more ]
Creative Bloq
4 months ago
Web design

Hoax Rolex smartphone design fools almost everyone

Realme-Rolex collaboration image went viral but turned out to be a hoax.
Realme actually collaborated with watchmaker Ollivier Savéo, not Rolex. [ more ]
Chicago Tribune
4 months ago
US politics

Illinois among several states hit with bomb threats to their capitols

Several states, including Illinois, received emailed bomb threats to statehouse buildings.
The FBI deemed the threats to be a hoax and no evacuations were ordered. [ more ]
english.elpais.com
5 months ago
Health

No, pork rinds are not healthier than vegetables, and there is no study that proves it

Multiple media outlets in Colombia and other countries published an article claiming that pork rinds are healthier than some vegetables based on a study from Boston University School of Medicine.
The study mentioned in the articles does not exist and is a hoax. [ more ]
www.independent.co.uk
5 months ago
France news

A bedbug hoax is targeting foreign visitors in Athens. Now the Greek police have been called in

The Greek health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who spread false information about a bedbug crisis in Athens rental flats.
The proliferation of short-term rental flats in Athens has contributed to housing problems and increased rental costs for Greeks. [ more ]
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