I think that people create internet hoaxes to get attention from others and because they know people will usually fall for it. The internet is littered with so much information that it can be very hard to tell what is fake and what is real, especially if you’re not really looking for it. Professor Whitney […]

Internet hoaxes have the ability to blow up social media and push any type of content someone wants the public to believe. There are many reasons someone would want to spread false information that ends up becoming viral. In some cases, the creator might want to draw attention to something people are uninformed about. The […]

Leave it to Instagram users to convince each other that the application is changing their privacy policy rather than the message come from the company itself. Towards the end of last month, Instagram was hit with a viral hoax  stating that their policies are changing and your posts, comments, or direct messages (even deleted ones) […]

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new…Instagram hoax. Since the dawn of the internet, users (corporations and bored individuals alike) have used the web to draw attention to issues, causes, or outright outlandish things through hoaxes. From the Montauk Monster to the Blair Witch Project, the internet has proven its capability […]

When I think of internet hoaxes the first thing that comes to mind is when 11 year-old me would send a “chain text” to my friends that said they would be cursed if they did not forward my message to 5 other people. Looking back, I realize how nonsensical my actions were, but at the […]

The internet is known for being a dark place. A dark place that holds lots of false information. This false information has a name, “Internet Hoax”. Hoaxes can be harmful in ways such as giving warnings about computer viruses or supposed health risks or they can be harmless by just warning people about a new […]

Remember the 2000s? Everyone was sending out chain emails left and right saying that if the chain wasn’t forwarded on, their life would be over. And for that very reason, we all forwarded on the chain. That was the original internet hoax. Almost a decade later and these hoaxes continue to arise on the internet. […]

  The internet has hosted countless hoaxes and the effects of these deceptions have the potential to be very harmful. Some hoaxes can be helpful in the way in which people are brought together or a positive change is made after the situation is realized to be a “hoax.” I would argue that every hoax […]