Michael Jackson is alive and other "experimental" hoaxes.
By topffer
@topffer (42155)
France
April 14, 2010 10:41pm CST
On August 25th 2009, a short video showing Michael Jackson alive jumping out of a coroner van was posted on the net and quickly mirrored. On September 1st the channel broadcasting in German at RTL TV said that they made this video as "an experiment aimed at showing how quickly misinformation and conspiracy theories can surface on the internet in a short matter of time ...(and)... to show how easily users can be manipulated on the Internet with hoax videos."
Medias can be manipulated too, and the older members at myLot might remember the mass graves of Timisoara at the end of 1989, and the important function played by this forged news to achieve the fall of communism in Romania.
Personally, I'm shocked by these bad hoaxes playing with death and dead people. In a world where less and less things are shocking, have we still some limits ? "Experimental" hoaxes are fashionable among medias today, to show us how stupid we are without their help. What do you think of such experiments ?
Michael Jackson still alive after helicopter transport to coroner (video on Youtube) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N0Ogaskv88
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@redhotpogo (4398)
• United States
15 Apr 10
The fall of communism in Romania came from the breaking up of the USSR, and revolution of the romanian and hungarian people against its communist captors. I'm not aware of an hoax involving graves of bodies. No one is believing any michael jackson is alive hoax. I've never seen the video you are showing before.
@topffer (42155)
• France
15 Apr 10
Hello redhotpogo !
Romania is the only country where the blood flowed at this time.
The fall of Ceaucescu was not so easy, and videos like this one helped :
http://video.collectionvideo.qc.ca/catalogue/affiche_info_cassette.asp?codeSerie=840&codeSousSerie=10
It's a pure hoax : five days later Ceauscescu was executed with his wife after a short trial.
