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For more than a decade, a prankster spun a web of deception about the inventor of the electric toaster. His lies fooled newspapers, teachers and officials. Then a teenager flagged up something that everyone else had missed.

bbc.co.uk/news/the-reporters-6

BBC NewsAlan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposedHow a 15-year-old schoolboy exposed a much-repeated "fact" as a Wikipedia hoax.
Nov 20, 2022, 03:32 AM·Public
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