3/16/2006
Google News is Sometimes Fake
As a computer-generated news site, Google News doesn't have a sense of humor -- or much sense at all, bloggers have discovered. By posting made-up articles on I-Newswire, a free press-release posting service, pranksters have discovered an easy way to get just about anything in the news.It started when Richard Wiggins, an Internet news blogger, noticed that would-be presidential candidate Daniel Imperato was posting press releases announcing his opinion on events of the day and realized that I-Newswire would post just about anything. Then someone used it to falsely report that actor Will Ferrell had died in a "freak paragliding accident." (Bloggers soon confirmed that Ferrell was alive and working on a movie set.) Next, a teenager claimed he had been hired by Google Research. After the fake news made the headlines on tech news website Digg.com,
the kid apologized.
Despite the widely reported gaffes, Google News still carried press releases from I-Newswire as of Wednesday morning.
[Source: CNN]
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Just because one fool peed in the beach, you do not stop taking bath in the sea. Its sad that a mad youngster misused free press release and has discredited i-newswire. Google is playing big daddy and black listing i-newswire. If the youngster had written that he was hired by Doogle Corporation in Rajasthan as Security Expert would any one have bothered to verify? If the mad cap wrote that Rajesh Bachan died dancing to a holi song in Bollywood would anyone have bothered? Today society is mature enough to know what to believe what not to believe, whom to believe and whom not to believe, when to belive and when not to beieve, where to believe and where not to believe.
Let Google and the net community wake up to realities and not talk of non existent values in journalism etc.
Let Google and the net community wake up to realities and not talk of non existent values in journalism etc.
I read over Daniel Imperato's press releases. They were all statements of fact or his opinion. He wasn't misrepresenting information or spreading rumors that anyone had died. I think that posting the story of Will Ferrell dying was irresponsible. Whether you like Daniel Imperato or not, he does have a right to speak his mind and be covered in the press, whether you like it or not. That's America, and some punk kid with a computer shouldn't try and take away peoples free speech rights because he can't handle the responsibility of living in a democracy.
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: March 17, 2006 3:48 AM
: March 17, 2006 3:48 AM
Danny Imperato had a company called New Millenium, probably about 8 years ago. He stole ALOT of money from ALOT of people, promising big paybacks on a global networking project, meanwhile driving a top-of-the-line leased car, expensive apt., unnecessary high-end travel. The company crumbled. Danny's a scammer.
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