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Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore
I received this in an email, but there wasn't a link to where it originated. If any of you have read it and know where it came from please post it...
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I believe voter fraud is a very big deal and there is quite a possibility that there are people handling various aspect of voting who aren't US citizens.
However, anonymous assertions often do little but rile people up to look like fools by running with unconfirmed BS. For example:
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A 40-year-old American man living in Scotland said Monday he's sorry for posing as a Syrian lesbian blogger who offered vivid accounts of life amid revolt and repression in Damascus, a still-unraveling hoax that has exposed the difficulty of sifting truth from fiction online.
Tom MacMaster said he created the fictional persona of Amina Arraf and the "Gay Girl in Damascus" blog to draw attention to conditions in a Middle East convulsed by change....
...And as the deceit unspooled, a second blogger known as Paula Brooks, who posted some of the fraudulent Arraf's comments on a lesbian news site, admitted to being a man who had adopted a fake lesbian persona.
The Washington Post reported late Monday that "Brooks" was a 58-year-old retired U.S. Air Force member named Bill Graber.
Graber admitted the deceit when phoned by the AP. He said he had set up the Lezgetreal.com site to advance the gay and lesbian cause and felt he would not be taken seriously as a straight man...
...For readers hungry for news of the uprisings sweeping the Arab world, it was gold dust - a gripping, firsthand account of a country from which most foreign journalists are excluded...
...A "Free Amina Arraf" Facebook page drew 14,000 supporters. The U.S. State Department said it was making inquiries to establish her identity...
...Reporters in Virginia, where Arraf claimed to have grown up, could find no trace of her or her family.
Journalists could find no one who had ever met her ...
...Then a woman in Britain, Jelena Lecic, came forward to say the photos of "Amina" on the blogger's Facebook page were actually of her. She had been unaware of the theft until she saw her own picture illustrating a British newspaper article about the blogger...
...Then a woman in Britain, Jelena Lecic, came forward to say the photos of "Amina" on the blogger's Facebook page were actually of her. She had been unaware of the theft until she saw her own picture illustrating a British newspaper article about the blogger...
...the whole episode should serve as a warning to media and rights groups trying to cover the region's uprisings.
"It underscores the age-old principle that you have to know your sources," he said. "You have to know who is feeding you this information."...
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/...y_8514757.html
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And, the people who took the bait look like fools.
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Last edited by ilbegone; 06-14-2011 at 06:07 PM.
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