maps A fake New York town that only existed on a map briefly became real Thom Dunn

Man rigs car with fake bomb to scare off repo men Allan Rose Hill

travel Writer fabricated stories for Atlas Obscura Rob Beschizza

mistakes AI-generated article hallucinates Christmas Day murder in small New Jersey town Rob Beschizza

crimes Suspected drug dealer arrested after the fake name he gave police turned out to be a wanted person David Pescovitz

deepfakes Mother arrested for making deepfakes to humiliate daughter's cheerleading squad members Mark Frauenfelder

propaganda The Washington Times demonstrates how to fake an Antifa attack Thom Dunn

cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow

web theory Traverse City, MI braves the wrath of telcoms lobbyists, pushes ahead with municipal fiber network Cory Doctorow

trump Trump's properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latinx workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town Cory Doctorow

videos Cable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that secretly created the fake-grassroots "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign to kill Missouri municipal net Cory Doctorow

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

tabloids Vampire corpses, Obama's plot to steal back the White House, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

scams Cunning malware scam targets drivers whose GPS data is leaking Rob Beschizza

happy mutants The best piece about Donald Trump published this election cycle Cory Doctorow

President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns Xeni Jardin

North Korea's creepy fake civilian village fools no one Alastair Bonnett