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The internet is ripe for hoaxing. A great example of a reputable news source being caught out recently is the Kyle Doyle fiasco. I first heard of it on the front page of The Age website – the big cheesey photo that lives on left screen was of Kyle Doyle’s face. Apparently he’d been busted by his boss chucking a sickie via his Facebook status. The next day however it was claimed – by Doyle’s employer AAPT plus Doyle and his boss – to be fake.

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have deterred The Age from filling its site with crap tabloid content.