Newspaper Columnist Suspended for Twitter Hoax

August 31, 2010

Mike Wise, a sports columnist at The Washington Post, published to his Twitter account that the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended for five games. Now Mr. Wise himself is suspended, because the information he published about Mr. Roethlisberger was made up — a test, he said, of how fast a piece of misinformation could spread online.

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