{"id":3339,"date":"2010-05-28T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T23:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2011-02-11T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T13:23:53","slug":"anatomy-of-a-wikipedia-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/anatomy-of-a-wikipedia-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Wikipedia HOAX…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple months ago, I\u00c2\u00a0introduced<\/a> you to the Wikipedia article (now yanked) on Orange Julius namesake\u00c2\u00a0Julius Freed<\/a>, which is full of all kinds of crazy trivia, like the fact that he invented a shower stall for pigeons. I was mostly interested in the article because (a) it had sat unchanged on Wikipedia for\u00c2\u00a0five years<\/em>, and (b) it all seemed transparently phony to the trained eye.<\/p>\n

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I got two things wrong in the original piece: first, I said that only a\u00c2\u00a0mental_floss<\/em>blogger had been fooled by the post. I totally missed the funniest development in this story: Dairy Queen, which now owns Orange Julius, inadvertently used the hoax material as the basis for a 2007 ad campaign! The ad firm space150\u00c2\u00a0createda\u00c2\u00a0viral video<\/a> on Julius\u00c2\u00a0Freed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life, using all the amazing-but-true facts from the Wikipedia article.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the Full article at\u00c2\u00a0Ken Jennings – Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Yes, it’s that Ken Jennings, yes… \u00c2\u00a0For those 4 of your that don’t know, the 74 time winner on Jeopardy!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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