The perils of Wikipedia.

PositionMEDIA - Internet fraud - Brief article

When a French composer named Maurice Jarre died in March, Shane Fitzgerald added a fake quote to Jarre's Wikipedia biography. Fitzgerald, a 22-year-old sociology major at University College Dublin in Ireland, says it was simply an experiment to see how the Internet affects media accuracy. But the results offer a cautionary tale to anyone using the Web for research. The fake quote immediately appeared on newspaper Web sites around the world--even though Wikipedia twice caught its Lack of...

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