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"I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something" [true] "instead of something" [someone] "made up," he said. "It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact." FROM: Student hoaxes world's media on Wikipedia by Shawn Pogatchnik AP May 12, 2009 clik here for original article or here if it is unavailable |
Should we let facts be built from hoaxes? How important is it to correct the record on issues of compelling public concern? |
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