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6.23.2004 posted by William 18:54 link |
The Charleston, SC instance of the City Paper franchise is running an article about Fark as its lead story this week. The article is pretty poorly written, but it does explain the origins of Fark and its explosive growth in just a few years. By far the best nugget of information is the revelation that webmaster Drew Curtis sometimes runs ersatz fake news: "A lot of the fake stuff that we link to also ends up on CNN’s headline ticker. I call them tracer rounds. Whenever we want to see where our stuff is going, we’ll just throw a fake story in and see what happens." |