(1) On 14 April 2002 it published a story about a woman allegedly pretending to be Milly Dowler who had applied for a job with a recruitment agency: “It is thought the hoaxer even gave the agency Milly’s real mobile number … the agency used the number to contact Milly when a job vacancy arose and left a message on her voicemail … it was on March 27, six days after Milly went missing, that the employment agency appears to have phoned her mobile.” The newspaper also made no effort to conceal its activity from Surrey police.
(2) The impending publication of the putative nude pictures, a humiliation that turned out to be a bluff, might have pulled Watson down among the lower orders of former child stars, those people who now exist in the public consciousness merely as cautionary tales to scare naughty teenagers: “Look what happened to Bieber today!”; “Did you see Cyrus in that outfit?” Although Watson has put her head above the parapet before, the provocation cited by the hoaxers was the New York speech she gave last Monday promoting the HeForShe campaign and arguing that gender discrimination harms both men and women.
(3) Both Google and Facebook have announced plans to go after the revenue of fake news sites, kicking the hoaxers off their ad networks in an attempt to prevent misleading the public from being profitable.
(4) Tracking them down was a hell of a task.” Canadian police knew exactly who the hoaxer was At first, Finley says, he was looking for a single perpetrator.
(5) And perhaps that distancing message hasn’t quite hit home: Thanet South Ukip’s own Facebook page has “liked” a notorious far-right hoaxer and antisemitic internet troll.
(6) The hoaxer posed as the basketballer and sought relationships and gifts, and also threatened at least one person.
(7) The RCMP declined to confirm the identity of the hoaxer, but the Post identified her as Shelly Lynn Chartier, 29, who has been charged with a string of crimes, including possession and transmitting of child pornography, impersonation, extortion, and making threats.
(8) She was also found guilty of a property infraction for possessing a copy of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy by Gabriella Coleman.
(9) • Twitter hoaxer comes clean and says: I did it to expose weak media
(10) Depending on how you view these things, Gardiner is either a harmless hoaxer with an opportunistic spirit, or he's a reminder of the dangers we all face now that we're taking more of our news from social media and non-traditional sources.
(11) De Benedetti denied he was a simple hoaxer fooling papers for money.
(12) That’s when Vladimir “Vovan” Krasnov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov, a pair of hoaxers known for their prank calls to Russian and Ukrainian celebrities, admitted they had been the ones who phoned John .
(13) Putin spoke with John by phone on Thursday and asked forgiveness for the pair of famous Russian hoaxers who had previously called John in his name, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
(14) But in a series of bizarre twists, a website claiming to belong to an online marketing company said on Wednesday that it had made up the threat as a publicity stunt to shut down the notorious messageboard 4chan – only for further claims to emerge that the entire episode was the work of hoaxers.
(15) The male American PhD student who confessed to being an internet hoaxer masquerading as a lesbian blogger in Damascus has spoken publicly about the reasons behind his deception, saying he was motivated, in part, by his own "vanity".
(16) But two possibilities outweigh all others: Either Wright invented bitcoin, or he’s a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did.” Gizmodo also published its own findings into Wright on Tuesday , alleging that Wright and his late friend Dave Kleiman, an American computer forensics expert who died in 2013, were involved in bitcoin’s development.
(17) The supposed hoaxers just wanted their 15 minutes, their 140 characters.
(18) Certainly, no one should waste too much sympathy on 4chan – among the internet’s most prolific (and often brutal) hoaxers and trolls – being vilified for something it is likely they didn’t, for once, do.
(19) But despite the site’s claim to be defending the honour of suffering “ladies”, the website Business Insider claims that Rantic.com itself does not exist, and is instead the work of a group of internet hoaxers called SocialVevo, whose motive is to capitalise on internet trends to gain page views.