Wired’s Image Viewer Used to Spread False News on Steve Jobs Heart Attack

Looks like some assholes took advantage of Wired’s wide-open image viewer to publish false news about Steve Jobs having a heart attack. And the worse thing is that a gazillion people bought it on Twitter:


For future reference, you can basically display anything you want in Wired’s image viewer, as you can see here (NSFW). [Thanks Mona Nomura]

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    Steve

    Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 1:12 AM

    I tend not to believe things with obvious typos in the header, but I guess that’s just me.

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