TricksOnWikipedia

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Deliberately trolling Wikipedia and other social media with fake information.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/

To demonstrate and warn people that it can be done.

Interesting trend of the article is that Wikipedia was more susceptible than Reddit because of its social structure : a few diligent editors whose discussion was on a talk page, away from casual visitors, whereas Reddit had all discussions at the same public level.

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