Sunday, 19 November 2006

YAASEH, or: Yet Another A le ecial Event Hoax

A arentlysomeone doe 't know how to enter our Create a Feb. 22 A le Invitecontest, as yet another A le ecial event hoax launched this morning and was promptly debunked. This time around,the event involved Steve and Bono at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, March 1st, and the invitation includedthe slogan "Together we can fight it." eculation immediately predicted a red iPod to coincide with Bono'sfight agai t AIDS and other diseases in Africa.

iLounge was the first site I saw reporting that A le hadconfirmedthe event a hoax. However, a lot of A le-related sites had already reported on the news and eculation of theevent. Once confirmation broke that the event was a hoax, some sites, like Mac , promptly removed their original reports in favor of anew article covering the situation as aknown fake.

TUAW wants to take this o ortunity to let readers know that when we're wrong - we're wrong.We'll update the original post with new information and thank whoever helped us keep our facts straight.

Sosit tight, re-freeze the credit cards and move along. There's no A le ecial Event to see here (yet). In the meantimethough, why not take a shot at our fake A le Invite contest? While wedon't have a red iPod for the wi er, we do have an A le logo stainle travel mug with your name on it.

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