Wired reports on a German hoax, in which, to promote his short film Short Cut to Hollywood, filmmaker Jan Henrik Stahlberg created a fake German rap group to perpetuate a fake terrorist attack on a fake town in San Bernardino County on September 11. The "attack" was reported on Germany's national newswire. Stahlberg was quite thorough--there are websites for the fake California city and its TV news station, and a video for the rap group. [Wired, via BoingBoing]
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