I've been peripherally aware of hate crime hoaxes since at least the early 90s when Laird Wilcox seemed to be the only one documenting them. Something I still don't know for sure: Are hoaxes the rule, or the exception? And how has the fraud-to-genuine ratio changed? Papers?
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Sarah has an argument that I can't be arsed to find right now that hoaxes are the rule for anything that makes it into the news.
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I vaguely remember this. See no reason not to tag her (
@sarahdoingthing), in case she can point it out.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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I spent far too many seconds trying to write the sentence so it didn't start with an @ sign, then gave up
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