Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Information on the Internet"
Our first reading report title Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and other Spurious Information on the internet is about sites that are made to mimic and misled information by using the web. It also it used as a tool to make people lose their beliefs and opinion on issues and even people. The article goes into detail explaining what is the different in each one of the different malicious sites that are out there. The sites that do this fall into these categories: counterfeit, malicious, product, fictitious, parodies/spoofs/entertainment, hacks and disinformation.
The article starts by talking about how counterfeit sites attempt to pass themselves off as real sites. These sites mimic the feel of the original site but are geared for misleading information trying to catch those doing research. The example they use in the article was the Martin Luther King website. It tells about how he supposedly was with several white women the night he was murdered. If you looked onto the site in more detail you would notice links to other pages and emails. Clicked upon them and you would be taken to pro-White America webpage.
The article goes into farther detail about how you could publish more malicious and misleading information. People do this by hiding behind the first amendment, which is the freedom of speech and by using the web to show it off.
I really didn’t know it was that many ways to mislead people. I honestly don’t see the enjoyment out of doing something in ways to misled or to slander someone else’s name and legacy. Its good that we do have agencies out there that monitor sites that try this. I always would maybe see pop-ups about joining something about getting a free computer or some type of electronic. People do the thing with those sites also. The web is a huge book with a lot of misleading information. Truly I think there should be violations and for those who do more harm than good to someone by doing this.