Broadcaster's hoax Jackson video causes online stir

A hoax video purportedly showing Michael Jackson emerging from a coroner’s van was an experiment aimed at showing how quickly misinformation and conspiracy theories can race across the internet, German broadcaster RTL said today.

Tue, 01 Sep, 2009 - 20:58

The video was posted by RTL on YouTube for a single day a week ago and received 880,000 hits.

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