Fake CNN.com Page Generator shuts down

A Web site that published fake news stories that appeared to be from CNN has been taken offline after the network threaten legal action for copyright and trademark infringement, Wired News reports. The Fake CNN News Generator created pages with CNN's logos, live links and banner ads, and the stories' URLs appeared to originate from the CNN Web site, though they including an '@' symbol, a common spoofing trick (See a screenshot). The site sparked a lot of controversy after some of the faked news stories were picked up by media outlets and reported as real. Mentions of phony stories about the death of musician Dave Matthews and the Olsen twins attending various local universities, for example, appeared in a number of local newspapers, as well as regional radio and TV news reports. Meanwhile, a similar site, FakedNews, which generates stories appearing to come from CNN, CNet and MTV, continues operating.

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Well this just sucks, at least the news from here was better than the real cnn. :shrug:

Posted by Anonymous at September 24, 2003 11:00 PM

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