Anatomy of a hoax

[dagamer34]

Remember pictures of the Sony Nexus X that were floating around the web this week? Well, they were fake. But what's even worse is the story behind it, how no one bothered to fact check, how people just ate up what they wished was true. Pretty daft I'd say. And no one attempted to contact the guy who put the picture on Picasa! Amazing.

 

[s44]

BS. Android Police, among others, called shens right away.

 

[zerocool84]

BS. Android Police, among others, called shens right away.

Yup pretty much every article I read about it pointed out reasons it could be fake.

 

[dagamer34]

Yup pretty much every article I read about it pointed out reasons it could be fake.

It's one thing to say it could be a fake, it's another to actually try and prove as much by, you know, trying to contact whoever posted it.

 

[ChronoReverse]

BS. Android Police, among others, called shens right away.

He mentions how Android Police were one of the few sites that actually called shens.