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Internet Explorer story was bogus →

infoneer-pulse:

A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.

A number of media organisations, including the BBC, reported on the research, put out by Canadian firm ApTiquant.

It later emerged that the company’s website was only recently set up and staff images were copied from a legitimate business in Paris.

It is unclear who was behind the stunt.

» via BBC

There were some really, really funny quotes in that story. I’m not shocked it was fake.

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   Off topic, but relevant. Fact checking and archives can go hand in hand, after all.

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   There were some really, really funny quotes in that story. I’m not shocked it was fake.

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   just because the story was bogus, doesn’t mean the assertion is false.

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