Salon.com Burned by Open Salon Hoax Story
Salon.com displayed a story from its Open Salon social content site by Norman Novus, a graduate student of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, in which he wrote about being harassed by religious activists outside his research suite.
However, what seemed like a good example of synergy backfired, as an anonymous tipster reports that the story is a hoax. The tipster said the story remained on the Salon.com home page for about 15 hours.
From the About Open Salon page from when the site was still in private beta testing:
Open Salon is a social content site we hope to officially launch later this year.
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