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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Hoaxes, Fraud, Deception, All articles lacking reliable references
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hoax  Academic hoax  Believing in fake things  chain email  hoaxer
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A hoax is a widely publicized falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into putting up the highest possible social currency in support of the hoax. Wikipedia
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A hoax is a widely publicized falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into putting up the highest possible social currency in support of the hoax. Wikipedia
Deliberate false information. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as the truth Wikidata
IS A
deception
lie
HAS KIND
swatting
Cello scrotum
death hoax
U.S. presidential IQ hoax
illegal stamp
+5 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Pacific Northwest tree octopus
grunge speak
Well to Hell
A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century
bananadine
+70 relations
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Otto's encyclopedia
DIFFERENT FROM
factoid
PARTIALLY COINCIDENT WITH
pseudoscience
Wikipedia
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hoax
Wikidata
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hoax
Wikipedia Redirections
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Academic hoax, Believing in fake things, hoaxer, hoaxes, Hoaxing, Hoaxster, Hoaxter, Internet hoax, marketing hoax, source fabrication
Wikidata Alias
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chain email

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