Cybersecurity and anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has reportedly tried to mislead reporters into believing that he had sabotaged Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption. Apparently, this isn’t the first time that the self-styled libertarian gained media attention for such outlandish claims like when he told the FBI that he’ll help them hack into the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone.
The green moon will be more of a social media hoax than a celestial phenomenon, claim critics.
Kalamazoo police officials dismissed the alleged $10 million lawsuit filed shooting suspect John Dalton against Uber as plain hoax. Dalton, on his part, denied ever doing it and handwriting on the filed complaint apparently did not match his.
Emma Watson says that the threats exposing nude photos of her made her angry and determined to continue upholding feminism.
A hoax that went viral on the internet has left fans of one country musician wondering exactly how all the madness began.
A research on journalism led by Craig Silverman talks about the drive among websites to add 'questionable' news. This drive is said to be motivated by the desire to garner page views and traffic to the site rather ran presenting accurate and well-researched news.
Actress Debby Ryan was the subject of a Twitter death hoax this week.
Controversial claims made at the Indian Science Congress about ancient Sanskrit texts documenting the invention of airplanes 7,000 years ago has drawn intense criticism.
A false message is doing the rounds in Facebook, says Snopes.com, the rumor bashing website.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
