With the rise of the Internet, the way we communicate has been revolutionized… and with it, the way we say nonsense too! It’s very easy to lie online. Often, no one knows who you are, and you don’t know the people you’re talking to on social media, forums, or chat rooms. Information about what you say is hard to verify.
So, if the message you want to convey is somewhat credible and is based on a few tangible elements, it can gain momentum quite quickly if it is relayed by many people, even if in hindsight, the information shared may turn out to be absurd. It is the mass phenomenon that creates the buzz and can, through the multiplication of reprints on the web (even by the press), give credibility to a hoax.
It is this effect that allows the success of certain hoaxes on the web.
In the infographic below, Who Is Hosting This has taken up 8 of these hoaxes that have marked the history of the internet from the onion that allows you to charge an iPod to the infinite energy generator, you will learn everything about these hoaxes, their genesis and the real story behind them!
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Article updated on January 24, 2021 by Byothe
Too bad that often your links cannot be translated... into French for my part, although I have "google translate"
Is there a way to translate, because often vod links are interesting
Hello,
The Chrome extension I talk about in the following article: http://byothe.fr/2014/04/copier-le-texte-dune-image-grace-a-project-naphta/
now allows you to select text on an image and translate it.
I hope this can help you, because indeed infographics are very often published in English.