English

Ellis Cherry

7 July, 10:43

One morning, you read on the Internet that a prominent Hollywood celebrity has died. You find this news reposted on several sites, but later in the day discover that other sites are claiming that this reported death was in fact a hoax, and that the celebrity is still alive. By the time the day is over, the celebrity has been confirmed as alive, and the death story is confirmed as untrue. Based on this event, what can be concluded? A) Hoaxes are easy to perpetrate on the Internet. B) Hoaxes are hard to perpetrate on the Internet. C) Mass media is much more unreliable than it used to be. D) Mass media is generally reliable, but hoaxes sometimes occur.