Fake Bill Keller Op-Ed Claimed by Wikileaks
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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 found himself the subject of an elaborate internet hoax. Photograph: Ruth Fremson/AP
WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing site set up by Julian Assange, has claimed that it was behind the fake opinion piece circulating on the internet under the name of Bill Keller, columnist and former executive editor of the New York Times.
In a tweet, WikiLeaks said:
The organisation implied that it – or its “great supporters”, whomsoever they might be – had carried out the stunt in a bid to embarrass the Times into covering the financial blockade of WikiLeaks by US companies: (more…)
