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Web Site Confirming Sale of Vivendi Faked
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Posted by: TotalRecall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and news network CNN said they were hit by a hoax on Monday after a faked Web page erroneously reported the software giant had agreed to buy the video game operations of French conglomerate Vivendi Universal.
The hoax Web site, which Purdue University in Indiana confirmed came from its Internet address, was designed to look like a CNN report and circulated on the Web among video game industry watchers on Monday.
This does not necessarily rule out the sale, though. Read more at Reuters.
Posted by: SKYHN
That was done before too with some other fake news. There was one about Britney Spears dying in a car wreck in LA 2 years ago, then it showed up again last year. I sent that to my britney loving friend, he called me crying.... 
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