(an alleged author of an article in the spotlight)
Over the past few years there has been a dramatic increase
in websites that appear to have technical information contained within them,
but the information is misleading, false or deliberately inaccurate leading to
other click bait websites.
So how do you spot these websites?
You can use your favourite search engine on a specific
topic, where the resulting highly ranked allegedly tech website contains inaccurate
information with a dubious author allegedly taking responsibility for the
article.
For the purpose of this exercise, a topic within the
smartphone community could be how to use secret codes that are used to obtain
all sorts of information from your smartphone, where the result of such as
search is shown within the screen capture below:
We then go to the highest ranking website, that being the
one at the top of the list, as shown below:
Notice that the website‘s link contains a date, suggesting
or even stating that the article was written/posted on the 21st of
March 2018, whereas the date that the alleged author wrote that article appears
to be on the 19th of February 2020.
Least but not least, that tech piece is apparently written
by the person in the screen capture at the top of this post, where we will call
it out to be fake.
No doubt that the picture is of a real man, but whether it's of 'Rohail', where most likely it could have been data mined, and what is stated is the real deal is highly doubtful.
Most of the so called codes that the author allegedly wrote do
not work, where we would classify this information as false.
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