…Exploring the role of the prankster as artist, activist and social observer and the significance of the prank in society.
Submitted by Emerson Dameron and Clark Stoeckley: WikiLeaks claims responsibility for fake Bill Keller column, citing donation ban by Ed Pilkington guardian.co.uk 29 July 2012 Hoax including fake tweets and a counterfeit Times website dismissed as ‘childish prank’ by former editor Bill Keller Bill Keller, former New York Times executive editor and current columnist, has …
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From artist, Clark Stoeckley, June 14, 2011: I started the WikiLeaks Top Secret Mobile Information Collection Unit on March 19th during a rally for Bradley Manning at the White House. My goal is to bring awareness to WikiLeaks, protest the detention of Bradley Manning, and make the government and corporations sweat when they look out …
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Submitted by Deborah Thomas of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting): Stand with Daniel Ellsberg, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky and others! Sign the petition to support Wikileaks. As journalists, activists, artists, scholars and citizens, we condemn the array of threats and attacks on the journalist organization WikiLeaks. After the website’s decision, in collaboration …
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From Huffington Post, December 10, 2010: WikiLeaks Rickroll’d! It’s nearly the end of 2010, so if you’ve made it this far without being Rickroll’d, we applaud you. The Internet prank (of the decade?) that consists of getting an unsuspecting person to hear the Rick Astly classic has been carried out in many forms, but we’ve …
The bizarre tale of Comet Ping Pong restaurant and “Pizzagate” provides a case study in how fake stories proliferate online. Update: And now it’s somehow gotten darker. Another update: There is now a direct link between the spread of Pizzagate rumors and the nascent Trump Administration. “The saga of ‘Pizzagate’: The fake story that shows …