Sentences with phrase «hoax revealed»

The individuals behind these hoaxes revealed their schemes online yesterday.

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Inc. exclusively revealed last week that the website, the source of many of the most - shared news hoaxes benefiting Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, is operated by Ovidiu Drobota, a 24 - year - old based in Romania.

While the company has reportedly put itself up for sale, so far no suitor has agreed to a deal, though a fake takeover bid in May 2015 briefly sent Avon's (AVP) shares surging 20 % before the offer was revealed as a hoax (and the shares promptly resumed their downward trend).

When a widely reported breakthrough in «cold fusion» was revealed to be a hoax 21 years ago, it set back the credibility, if not the momentum, of one of mankind's greatest and longest - running research efforts.

Viral hoaxes on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election reveal the limits of campaign finance laws and regulations.

Yesterday, Colby Cosh at Macleans highlighted Gordonâ $ ™ s post as revealing this study to be a «climate - change hoax.»

He even firmly believed and defended the later - revealed hoax from the girls in England who faked a garden picture with fairies in 1917 (The Cottingley Fairies).

It was a hoax, of course, and when Sokol publicly revealed the fact it caused quite a sensation, heaping embarrassment upon the editors and their academic colleagues who had long since lost the capacity to discern the difference between rational discourse and their trendy gibberish.

, who penned the book «The Greatest Hoax,» and was revealed to be a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has argued that «substantial global warming is likely to be of benefit to the United States.»

When the researchers revealed their hoax, calls started coming in from the likes of The Boston Globe, CNN, and the BBC.

At a press conference a week later, «Finch» announced his retirement and on the 15th, Sports Illustrated revealed the whole thing had been a hoax, much to the chagrin of hopeful Mets fans.

Now that it's been revealed that Casey Affleck's documentary on Joaquin Phoenix was a hoax, Scott Youngbauer is compelled to revisit his review of the film.

The sequel reunites the Scooby gang (including director Raja Gosnell and screenwriter James Gunn) to do battle with monsters and the memory of the original cartoon series, in which — as I recall — the monsters were always revealed to be hoaxes in the end.

Though the film's first end credit proudly proclaims «Filmed entirely on Zoetrope Studios» as if revealing you to be the victim of an elaborate hoax, you needn't be a Nevadan native or frequenter to spot the unreality of the setting.

There were a lot of people that were quite sad when the Fallout 4 website turned out to be a hoax and we didn't get a reveal at VGX.

The usual suspects become hysterical with glee that finally the «hoax» has been revealed and congratulations are handed out all round.

It's when they make more outrageous claims, such as asserting the hoax has been revealed or referring to climate scientists as «jihadists»...

Imagine how the electorate will turn when the carbon paradigm is revealed as a hoax, and they won't have to believe that their desire for cheap energy is a venal sin.

«Climategate» became a media phenomenon, with prominent politicians declaring that the emails revealed that climate change is a «hoax.»

«The revealing of the 20th Century warming hoax follows the earlier debunking of the Hockey Stick by Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick.

How many people changed their opinions about evolution, in even the tiniest detail, when Piltdown Man was revealed to be a hoax?

Tedious as it may be to read, the effort to go through each scientist's testimony — here (Lindzen's begins at pg 27), here, (Lindzen resumes at pg 3, Michaels begins at 10) and here (Idso at pg 3, Balling at 17)-- reveals that none of them offered anything remotely close to simple dismissal of global warming as a hoax.

Nathan Thornburgh, a DadWagon reporter who also writes about Russia for Time magazine, last week pulled back the curtains to reveal the woman behind «Baby Yoga with Lena Fokina,» a video - gone - viral that initially was widely regarded as a hoax and that was later pulled from YouTube, which deemed it too disturbing even for its seasoned, seen - it - all viewers.

Phishing scams use spoofed (meaning faked or hoax) emails and websites to trick you into revealing your personal and financial information.

I'm a «conspiracy theorist» for pointing out that not revealing who funds your research probably makes you less credible, but an entire column claiming climate change is a hoax — you might even say, a «conspiracy» — makes you a... what?