Minor, Lee and Cattachio

In the first article, Minor talks about how he found a user-edited wiki page for TV shows and became the editor for a forgotten 90s TV show called Street Sharks. Because the website does not require qualified people to be editors, he was able to completely make up characters, invent new plots and say that actors were voices for characters when they were not. The crazy thing about all of this was that he did it to see how many people would fall for it, and a lot of people did. This includes Netflix that said that Henry Winkler and Adam West were character voices in their show description, when they really weren't.  It is amazing how quick people are to believe things on the internet, even though anyone can edit what is posted on some websites and a small amount of research would show the myths created are not true at all.

In the second article, Lee talks about how the FBI and local police were using websites like Facebook and Reddit to discuss possible suspects of the Boston bombing, using "crowd source investigations". However, the investigations were wrong and they accused the wrong man of being the terrorist. People on the internet say that, "unreliable crowd-sourced material plus the media's ravenous desire for fresh information has proved a disgusting mix" and that the investigation was "unstoppable finger-pointing and wild conjecture". The incident proves that the internet only has incomplete and misleading evidence and that people should only give leads and let the police figure out the rest.

In the third article, Cattachio discusses the conflicting information that went around both Twitter and news sources regarding the Representative Giffords incident. Sources first said that while holding an event at Safeway, Giffords was shot in the head and was killed, but later sources said that not only was Giffords alive but the prognosis was optimistic. The article mainly focuses on sources wanting to get out news first and the fastest, but often times doesn't make sure to fact check or make sure it is the most accurate and up-to-date information