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20 years ago I sent a fake story to movie website Ain’t It Cool News, claiming that actor John Rhys-Davies (in town for a convention) hinted he would be voicing General Grievous in the upcoming Star Wars Episode III.

They published my email in a take-it-or-leave-it way. Some friends and I then tipped off other websites, who reported that AICN were “reporting” the rumour. It got more reliable with each retelling. Within days, it had made it to mainstream media.

I learned more about misinformation and the news cycle from this experience than in my entire journalism major.

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Harry Knowles: Why He Was Significant and Why He's Terrible

Harry Knowles: Why He Was Significant and Why He’s Terrible

One big story flooding the nerd news outlets and even the mainstream media this week regards Harry Knowles and his tendency towards grabbing at women who don’t want to be grabbed at. There has been precisely three responses to this news: A) Who’s Harry Knowles? B) That website is still running? or C) I live in Austin, Texas, and have already been groped by this creep. This article is going to…

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