According to this story on Slashdot, an undergraduate student duped journalists by continually adding a fake quote to the wikipedia article on French composer Maurice Jarre after his death. The end result was the seeding of misinformation throughout new and old media.
Now what can we all learn from this? I think that perhaps journalists could learn a few digital literacy skills...let's start with fact-checking.
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Wow, this is a great story to share with students as well. Fact checking is a must. Many of my students take everything at face value (heck, most adults do this). We live in a world where the "experts" are not always experts. Just because you publish something doesn't make it factual.
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