Hoaxes and Romours - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: Hoaxes and Romours


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Truth and rumour
Problems using information from the internet and
e mail
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Paul is Dead

• In the 1960s a rumour was circulated that one of
  the members of the group the Beatles had died
• It was Paul Macartney
• Various clues as to his death were supposed to
  be seen on the cover of their LP.

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Paul is Dead

• One of the group wears a three cornered hat
• The scene is very funereal.
• Someone has a hand on Pauls left shoulder

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• The photo on the inside cover has Paul McCartney
  wearing a badge with some letters

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• Blowing up the picture shows the letters OPD
• This was believed to stand for Officially
  pronounced dead

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• On the back cover Pauls back is turned away.

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• On a later album Paul is shown wearing bare feet

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Why were there rumours?

• To help publicise the album and increase sales?
• Spread by people as a bit of fun?
• It was real?
• In fact, 30 years later, Paul Macartney is living
  in Sussex and making music.

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September 11th

• These terrible events were the subject of a lot
  of information on the internet
• A lot of the information that was available
  seemed shocking
• Some was actually false and some was true

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The Coup

• The image on the right was circulated around the
  world by e mail.
• The message sent with the image said that a New
  York group called the Coup had made this CD cover
  just before September 11th showing the twin
  towers being blown up

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The Coup

• The rumour about the image turned out to be
  true they altered picture of the Twin Towers
  to show them being blown up
• The record company produced a new cover and the
  old one was never released a few months after
  September 11th.

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The Coup
Lead rapper MC Boots Riley said about the
cover The Coup are deeply saddened by this
horrible tragedy. A new cover has been designed
for Party Musics November 6 release. We took
the pictures on May 15, and we were done with it
by the beginning of June. Any similarities are
totally coincidental . . . .
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Starbucks

• A rumour was spread by e mail and on the internet
  about a Starbucks Coffee shop in New York
• It said that ambulance workers trying to rescue
  people on September 11th were charged 100 for
  bottled water used to treat victims.

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Starbucks

• You may be surprised to learn that this rumour
  turned out to be true . . . but it only involved
  one person.
• However, try to think how anyone involved or
  seeing such terrible events might feel would
  you think straight??
• In fact Starbucks were kept open 24 hours a day 7
  days a week to support the relief effort and
  became a very important place for relief workers
  to recover briefly.

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Windings font
Subject FW Scary One of the planes that hit
the trade centre towers was flight number Q33NY
1) Open a new Word document and type in capital
letters Q33NY 2) highlight it 3) enlarge the
font to 48 4) click on Font Style and select
"Wingdings" You will then will be amazed!!

• Within a few days of September 11th this e mail
  was sent to many people.
• The next slide shows what happens if the follow
  the instructions.

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Windings font
Enter this text into Word
Q33NY
Q33NY
Change the font to Windings and this appears
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Windings font

• A In fact the flight number Q33NY was never used
  for any flights that day.
• Microsoft said, We have enough symbols and
  combinations that it's almost inevitable that
  you'll find something that's a little sinister."
• If you type in Millennium you find this on
  changing the font t.o Windings

MILLENIUM
MILLENIUM
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Missing

• Another image rumour that was sent involved
  someone called the Lost Tourist
• The date on the picture is 11th September
• The rumour said that this picture was from a
  camera found in the wreckage of the buildings

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Missing

• In fact the photo was found to have been faked
• The image of the plane was taken from the
  internet on a plane spotting web site.
• The person in the picture was eventually found to
  be a student from Poland
• He was very sorry about what he had done and did
  not mean to upset anyone

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Bert

• Another rumour was circulated about this image
• Had it been faked?
• If you look very carefully you will see something
  odd.
• The poster appeared at a rally supporting Bin
  Laden

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Bert
Did you notice this image?
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Bert

• The person who put together the poster had used
  the internet to find images of Bin Laden
• Unfortunately they didnt check the images they
  used very carefully
• One image came from a comedy web site called
  Bert is Evil
• The web site has a number of faked photographs
  showing a Muppet called Bert with different
  people

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Whenever you use the internet for information
remember these key points

• Check sources can you be sure information is
  accurate or correct
• Compare sources try to find more information
  that supports what you have found
• Decide if you believe it or not if you dont or
  are not sure then dont use it.