Fake Bhutto Boy Ruins Facebook for French Reporters
Hamilton Nolan · 01/21/08 02:00PMWire service Agence France Presse has forbidden its reporters from using Facebook as a source for their stories — after news organizations were fooled by a fake profile on the social network of Benazir Bhutto's son. Also banned, according to AFP's London bureau chief: references to Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia. Not nearly far enough: the internet itself is a perfidious Anglo-Saxon invention. France should have stuck with Minitel.