By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: A man is bored and invents a battle in a fictional Iraqi town called “Cheese Bladder.” He tweets it. The rest isn’t history.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Iraqis claim victory in battle invented as Twitter joke
By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: A man is bored and invents a battle in a fictional Iraqi town called “Cheese Bladder.” He tweets it. The rest isn’t history.
How One Twitter Troll Created a Fake Islamic State Battle
By Chris Mills
Twitter is a pretty easy platform to troll with fake rumors, like celebrity deaths or Justin Bieber self-harm. But making up an entire fake battle between Iraqi and IS forces, complete with battlefield maps and hilarious(ly fake) place names? That takes some skill.
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How One Twitter Troll Created a Fake Islamic State Battle
By Chris Mills
Twitter is a pretty easy platform to troll with fake rumors, like celebrity deaths or Justin Bieber self-harm. But making up an entire fake battle between Iraqi and IS forces, complete with battlefield maps and hilarious(ly fake) place names? That takes some skill.
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Foxconn Played an Unwitting Role in the Hack on the Iran Nuclear Talks
In this ‘Jurassic Park,’ the humans try to escape
By Anthony Domanico Dinosaurs and humans get their roles reversed in “Pleistocene Park,” an animated short from Fox’s Animation Domination HD that envisions an amusement park where humans are the ones in captivity.
The reason to start investing in a 4K screen just became much more convincing—NASA is now uploading
By Darren Orf
The reason to start investing in a 4K screen just became much more convincing—NASA is …
Is Dead Golden Girl Rue McClanahan Haunting Twitter?
By Kate Knibbs
Looking at Twitter or Facebook yesterday, it would not be crazy to assume that Rue McClanahan, erstwhile star of The Golden Girls, had just died. People were losing their marbles over the death of Blanche Devereaux. But McClanahan didn’t die yesterday. She left this earthly existence five years ago.
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What to expect from Microsoft’s Xbox One E3 2015 press conference
By Nick Statt Microsoft will kick of the year’s biggest video game confab next Monday. Here’s what to watch to look for.