Balloon Boy. The Yes Men. The training exercise on the Potomac.
The AP’s David Bauder writes about how the speed of news reporting and social media has led to a situation where hoaxes are seemingly more and more likely to slip through:
The recent spate of hoaxes and premature stories exposes a dangerous fault line for journalists in the world of second-by-second news.
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