In an earlier post I wrote that there was a report circulating out of the McCain camp that Ms. Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.

It turns out that that information was part of an elaborate hoax spread with the intent to embarrass bloggers.

 

They say the blame lies not with them but with shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere.

“With the 24-hour news cycle they rush into anything they can find,” said Mr. Mirvish, 40.

 

But most of Eisenstadt’s victims have been bloggers, a reflection of the sloppy speed at which any tidbit, no matter how specious, can bounce around the Internet. And they fell for the fake material despite ample warnings online about Eisenstadt, including the work of one blogger who spent months chasing the illusion around cyberspace, trying to debunk it.

Whoops. My bad.

You can read the full article that describes the hoax here.

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