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How two students created ‘the weirdest hoax on the internet’ that fooled major news outlets for over a decade

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Published 11:35 13 Aug 2024 GMT+1

How two students created ‘the weirdest hoax on the internet’ that fooled major news outlets for over a decade

The Wikipedia hoax nearly resulted in a fake image being printed on £50 notes

Rikki Loftus

Rikki Loftus

Featured Image Credit: Wikipedia/ballyscanlon/Getty Images
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