Retraction? (Possibly)
Some time ago I posted on the Iranian missiles photoshop hoax (Drowning in disinformation
Well now it appears that one of the sources that pushed the hoax story in the media has itself been involved in a complex hoax of its own. Martin Eisenstdat, purportedly the 'McCain Camp Adviser' who revealled that Sarah Palin did not know Africa was a continent turns out to be a hoax.
So now we have at least two levels of hoax, possibly more. All of which reinforces my original argument that we need to establish more trustworthy sources of information in the Web.
Is the New York Times a trusted source of information? Well this week a fake copy was printed. And what was perhaps more surprising was the fact that a large number of journalists seem to have reported the groups claim to have printed 1.2 million copies without questioning the improbability of financing, let alone perpetrating a hoax on such a scale.
Is nytimes.com a trustworthy source of information? Well not http://nytimes.com/, that is for sure. Not without SSL security at the very least.
