On the Virtual Frontier of the Imagination

On The Virtual Frontier Of The Imagination

Source: Walter Scheirer
Affiliation: University of Notre Dame

In this book chapter, Walter Scheirer discusses a very early instance of faking the news in which a group of computer hackers being interviewed by NBC Dateline fooled the interviewers and viewers into thinking they had hacked into classified documents about UFOs.

Keywords: Misinformation/Disinformation , Tech Ethics