Where will it end? 'Fake' Rebecca Black story a hoax
By Andrew Ramadge
Rebecca Black's Friday is not a fake. At least, we don't think so. Unless this story is a fake... but it's not. Picture: YouTube
HOW meta can you get?
A news article claiming that Rebecca Black's song Friday is a "fake" is in fact itself fake.
The article, which did the rounds on Twitter today, looked as if it had been published by stuff.co.nz.
It claimed Rebecca Black was actually a fictional character from an upcoming movie called The Music Factory, and was played by an actress named Jessica Jones.
"Teen music sensation Rebecca Black and her internet hit Friday are actually a viral marketing campaign for a new movie," the bogus story read.
"The Music Factory, directed by Home Alone's Chris Columbus, is about a secret facility where cyborgs resembling young teenagers are created and turned into pop stars."
Stuff.co.nz group online editor Sinead Boucher this afternoon confirmed that the story was not published by the Fairfax Digital site.
"No this is not a real Stuff story and it never appeared on the site," she told news.com.au.
Some web-savvy readers began having suspicions earlier in the day.
Even though the article used the same layout and graphics as stuff.co.nz, it was not hosted on the site. Searches of the real stuff.co.nz site also failed to return any results for the story.
"It is a hoax, she hasn't been exposed as a fake," Ms Boucher said.
"So, I guess the bad news is that Rebecca Black is probably for real!"
Source: news.com.au
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