Title – “Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Information on
the Internet”
Author – Paul S. Piper
The article “Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Information on the Internet” is a very informative article about non legitimate websites all over the internet that claim to be legitimate. With all the technology today people are able to disguise their website using .org as well as many other methods. Every false website has an ulterior motive that varies with different websites. This article gives many examples of bad websites including fake Martin Luther King Jr. and Makah Tribal Council websites. The article proceeds to give methods of detecting these websites such as looking at who registered the website, biased information, and suspicious domain names. This few things are almost a dead give away every time. The article also speaks of “hate sites” which are very common all over the internet. These are sites that are dishonest about their intentions and claim specific historical events never happened. One site they mention is one that claims the European Holocaust never happened. Obviously this isn’t true and I don’t understand why anyone would ever waste their time trying to sell this idea. These are some of the larger points of the article but it also continues to accurately describe misinformation from disinformation as well as fictitious from non-fictitious sites.
I think this a great article that attempts to open the eyes of all internet uses. Everyone sadly knows that the holocaust was an actual event and everyone knows that Martin Luther King Jr. was not a communist. I know I am always looking online for factual research and answers to questions. I will honestly say I always though a website that was a .org was a legitimate website and I have now learned that this is most definitely not the case. As I said earlier every person has their reasons for making these crazy websites and I can only begin to wonder why anyone would waste their time making up stories.
