A hoax is a widely publicised falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied...
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The Hoax is a 2006 American comedy-drama film starring Richard Gere, directed by Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallström. The screenplay by William Wheeler...
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Moon landing conspiracy theories (redirect from Apollo moon landing hoax)
elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations. The most notable...
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newsmagazine episodes and podcasts. The first scripted film based on the hoax was the 2023 Lifetime television film Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini with...
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Look up hoax in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hoax is deliberate false information. Hoax may also refer to: "The Hoax", (Italian : Una burla riuscita)...
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Manti Te'o (redirect from Girlfriend hoax)
director Jack Swarbrick confirmed the university had hired private investigators to uncover the source of the hoax, and he clarified that Te'o's relationship...
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The "Momo Challenge" was a hoax and an internet urban legend that was rumoured to spread through social media and other outlets. It was reported that...
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The Balloon Boy hoax occurred on October 15, 2009, when a homemade helium-filled gas balloon shaped to resemble a silver flying saucer was released into...
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The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835" was a series of six articles published in The Sun (a New York newspaper), beginning...
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computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain e-mail that tells the recipients...
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Saint Hoax published their campaign Happy Never After. The artist used images of Disney princesses to spread awareness about domestic violence. The princesses...
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Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy, and Culture is a 2008 book by Alan Sokal detailing the history of the Sokal affair in which he submitted an article...
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Hoax (stylized as HOAX) is an American indie pop band originating in Long Island, New York. The band is led by Michael P. Raj (vocals) and Frantz N. Cesar...
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A death hoax is a deliberate report of someone's death that is later revealed to be untrue. In some cases, it might be because the person has intentionally...
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The Hampstead Hoax was a series of false allegations starting in 2014 that a Satan-worshipping paedophile ring of about "175 parents, teachers and religious...
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Hoax [aka Bigfoot] is a 2019 American horror film directed by Matt Allen, starring Cheryl Texiera, Ben Browder and Hutch Dano. Six college students are...
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Sokal affair (redirect from Sokal Hoax)
The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and...
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The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing...
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participate in the furry or otherkin subcultures. Various American conservative and right-wing politicians and media personalities promoted the hoax in response...
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1906-07-17 Archived 2024-07-31 at the Wayback Machine fern (2024-07-14). The Weirdest Hoax on the Internet. Archived from the original on 2024-07-31. Retrieved...
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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories (redirect from Sandy Hoax)
in the Sandy Hook killings. So the conspiracy theorists must instead challenge the claim that the attack even occurred. They believe it's all a hoax to...
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"The Balloon-Hoax" is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844...
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Mark (October 6, 1997). "The JFK-Marilyn hoax". Newsweek. Vol. 130, no. 14. pp. 24–26. "Trial Begins Over Forged JFK Papers". The Chicago Tribune. April...
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The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship...
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"Hoax" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her eighth studio album, Folklore (2020). Swift wrote the track with its producer...
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The Miscegenation hoax, taking the form of a pamphlet subtitled The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro,...
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Pan Am Flight 914 (category 1990s hoaxes)
Am Flight 914 is a hoax that a Douglas DC-4 disappeared after a takeoff in 1955 and only landed again three decades later. The hoax alleges that a Pan...
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The Zhemao hoaxes were over 200 interconnected Wikipedia articles about falsified aspects of medieval Russian history written from 2012 to 2022 by Zhemao...
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The Taxil hoax was an 1890s hoax of exposure by Léo Taxil, intended to mock not only Freemasonry but also the Catholic Church's opposition to it. Taxil...
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The following is a list of hoaxes: These types of hoaxes are semi-comical or private "sting operations" intended to expose people. They usually encourage...
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