Ooops!! Looks like someone forgot to scrub something!! “Home” goes to a home page for a Kenyan newspaper archive for 2004. Updating the format for the web address to “http://www.eastandard.net/” takes you to the current day’s edition of this newspaper.
It’s relatively easy to fake an old internet news article but not an entirely new set of current-dated articles. Especially since most of Eastern and Southern Africa was taken over by British, Danish and Norwegians who like to spell our “z” words with an “s”, for example, ‘organisation’ versus ‘organization.’
An acquaintance of mine sent it to a morning radio show my acquaintance listens to and they talked about it. They said that if the powers that be were ever to respond, it would be only to say that “well, these african papers are not known for their accuracy and fact checking.” Yeah, right. Unlike CNN, who only fact checks SNL when they FINALLY make a lame attempt at satirizing Obama…
It just shows that “they” can’t even do something underhanded like try to scrub the internet efficiently. Lets’ put THEM in charge of every aspect of our lives, huh?
