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Man Bats on the Moon: The Possible Origin of Fake News Around the Lunar Landings
Conspiracy theories about the moon have existed for centuries, but they used to be a whole lot hornier.
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India Calls On WhatsApp To Stop The Spread Of Hoax Messages That Have Led To Lynchings
WhatsApp is promising to introduce new features intended to prevent the spread of hoax messages in India following reports that more than one dozen lynchings have occurred in the country as a result of false rumours spread on the popular, Facebook-owned messaging service.
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Those Adorable Chinese Spider-Man: Homecoming Posters Are Totally Fake
Sorry, folks. Spider-Man didn’t ride a horse, play with pandas, or take a nap next to the Great Wall. The posters for China’s release of Spider-Man: Homecoming are a hoax.
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Legendary Programmer Dies For The Second Time
Those working in tech owe much of their livelihood to Dennis Ritchie. The New-York born pioneer was among the early Bell Labs alums, and is credited with both creating the C programming language and co-developing Unix.