Prank leaves Justin Bieber facing tour of North Korea
by Daniel Emery
BBC News
July 7, 2010
Canadian singer Justin Bieber’s has become the target of a viral campaign to send him to North Korea.
A website polled users as to which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations that could be voted on.
There are now almost half a million votes to send the singer to the secretive communist nation.
The contest, which ends at 0600 on 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days.
Many of the votes are thought to originate from imageboard website 4chan, which has built a reputation for triggering online viral campaigns. Continue reading “Rumor Magnet Bieber Is Not Dead, nor Going to North Korea”