Jul 9, 2022 • 23M

No more lies

A decade-long online prank involving fake historical accounts of Russian history was unearthed on Chinese social media

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Andrew Methven
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This is about one of the biggest hoaxes in Wikipedia's history which has recently been uncovered in China.

A writer who goes by the name of 折毛 zhé máo has spent the last 10 years creating fictitious …

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