Internet Hoax Articles Considered Harmful
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Sun Oct 7 23:54:50 PDT 2001
On Sunday, October 7, 2001, at 10:43 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> Hint: This isn't the style AP uses.
>
> The biggest problem would-be hoaxers have is crafting articles in the
> appropriate style -- very, very few can pull it off.
Monday October 8 2:16 AM ET
Ridge Warns on Internet Hoax Articles
By Winston Blair, Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA, Pennyslvania (AP) - Homeland Defense Secretary Tom Ridge
said Sunday that the U.S. faces a serious and expanding threat from
fraudulent Internet articles, or hoaxes.
``These articles often sway the gullible,'' he told a press conference
in Philadelphia. ``It cannot be permitted. The freedom of speech we
enshrine in our Constitution is not the freedom to speak frivolously in
times of war. There are no free speech advocates in foxholes.''
Ridge stressed that the U.S moves to limit false news articles will be
done with input from civil liberties groups, saying the moves are
``against info-terrorists, info-terrorism, their sanctuaries and their
supporters.''
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