Biggest hoax on Twitter so far 0
This was a very hard lesson for organizations such as AFP, Live Mint and IT World. The world was excited to find out that Dalai Lama had signed up for an account on Twitter and this hoax managed to fool a lot of people thanks to news sources that we normally trust. Here are some of the articles that had people following the ‘fake’ Dalai Lama:
What happened to the days of vetting a story before publication? Is the traditional press struggling to keep up with the new trend of Citizen Journalism made possible by the advent of blogs and other social networking tools? It could be a possible explanation for publishing a story in a hurry without checking its authenticity.