Given time and dedication, it is possible to fabricate entire events online, showing not just faked pictures or tweets, but the faked reactions of people watching the supposed disaster.
Related: 'Doubt everything' – Ukrainian students' warning to Russian counterparts Channel One has regularly faced accusations of airing faked or misleading footage, particularly in covering the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The point is that where celebrities lead, civilians follow and if we allow this to go unremarked we are opening ourselves up to a future in which we, as innocent bystanders, will be drawn into foreplay so faked that Piers Morgan could slap a headline on it and put it on the front page of the Daily Mirror.
There are some mildly spicy stories of an almost routine sort told to reveal artistic temperament that include Balthus hanging Joan Miro's daughter, Dolores, out of a window, a faked suicide attempt and greeting a model with a dagger.
After all, some people believe the 1969 moon landing was faked or that the Holocaust is a hoax; why not require history teachers to inform pupils of both sides of those issues, too?Tennessee's bill is not unusual: since 2004 similar measures have been offered in no fewer than 13 state legislatures.
Days before, the president and chairman of Tokyo Electric Power resigned over cover-ups of faked safety reports on the company's nuclear reactors.See article: Japanese corporate scandalsStay informed this week and every week Sign up to receive The Economist's round-up of business and politics each week.
Sometimes crew are kidnapped and taken into the swampy Delta region before being released for ransom.In a curious twist, the Angolan authorities say that the case of the MT Kerala was a "faked hijacking", alleging that the crew had deliberately turned off the ship's communications.
Targets received plausible-seeming "phishing" e-mails, often sent from faked State Department addresses, with a subject line such as "Fw: Draft US-China joint statement" and an attachment.
Bogus payslips are produced along with faked time-cards and workers are drilled on the correct answers to questions.Mr Clark's conclusion is unsparing.
That belief was sustained by means of faked statistics and, in the 1950s, by the success of the earth-orbiting Sputnik project.
