Hoax
id:
hoax-168-2538182
title:
Hoax
text:
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 social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions; that is done in order to gull its victims into putting up the highest possible social currency in support of the hoax. Whereas the promoters of frauds, fakes, and scams devise them so that they will withstand the highest degree of scrutiny; customary in the affair, hoaxers are confi
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Widespread deliberate fabrication presented as truth
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax
date created:
2002-05-17T03:28:12Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T06:18:03Z
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fields total:
13
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16