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How To Avoid Spreading Misinformation On The Internet

8:00PM May 4, 2011 | Adam Pash

Even if you’ve never embarrassed yourself by unknowingly spreading an urban legend as fact to friends and family or, say, retweeting a fake quote by Martin Luther King Jr after Osama bin Laden’s death, you’ve at least been on the receiving end of one of these misinformed messages. Next time an email, tweet or link seems a little fishy, here’s how to spot it before your itchy trigger finger sends it to all your friends or followers. More »


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A Man Finds an Actual Card Skimmer in the Wild, in the Flesh

12:00PM April 7, 2009 | Andi Wang

What? No way. Something thought to be of an urban legend—or maybe just a story we’d only see on 20/20—a real, normal person has actually found proof of the the ever evasive credit-card skimmer.

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