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hoax

[hohks] / hoʊks /


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Hoax threats against flights heading for other countries also lead to international agencies getting involved.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

This strange 19th-century version of a meme is called the Tom Collins Hoax of 1874, an event of practical jokery so famous, it was immortalized in song and the archives of the Library of Congress.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2023

It also found that he defamed her last year when he went on his Truth Social website and called her case a “complete con job” and “a Hoax and a lie.”

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Her defamation claim concerns an October 2022 post on Trump's Truth Social platform in which he called her allegations a "complete con job" and "a Hoax and a lie."

From Reuters • May 8, 2023

A nineteenth-century illustration of the 1835 Great Moon Hoax.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow




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