Social media The Hoax Slayer site has one page that is FB related Recently I saw the old email hoax of the two striped jumper spider make the rounds on Zuck s baby Now whoever originated this thing did the disinformation Unsuspecting folks forwarded misinformation Again the one who started the FB chain was doing disinformation albeit more mischief than not perhaps But I saw many reasonable folks take it at face value There may be several reasons for this trust of the sender spider phobia not taking the time to check out the message before forwarding Share or Comment in the FB milieu It was nice to find the Wikipedia page s section on the Hoax Ought we have a category for hoaxes motivated by continuing examples which necessitate discussion of this topic My little example is probably one of many that were active today where some of these might have been downright malevolent BTW this is the status of the page when I last edited 2007 Has the content really progressed from that earlier context All this verbiage for six years It s simple Dis involves a conscious effort to alter etc mis is an error albeit willful in some cases