Fans cried out: not funny!

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/04/01
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – April 1st is better known as Fools’ Day and traditionally some

(By Taiwan News)

mischievous news stories are spread before or on this day, but some of them went way too far. Taiwanese-born pitcher Wang Chien-ming (王建民) has become the victim of a prank that enraged his fans, saying the joke is in bad taste and “not funny at all.”

Popular local sports website Sports Vision (運動視界) cited a foreign news story to give a Chinese-language report that says Wang has won a one-year deal with San Diego Padres, which was quickly denied by Wang’s manager. The news piece cited by Sports Vision was later found to be a fake one generated by a fake-news creator “clone zone,” the web tool that allows users to copy the layout of popular news sites while changing their content as a hoax. In this case, the fake news about Wang was created in the style of the Score, a popular sports news publisher. A Sports Vision editor was obviously fooled.    [FULL  STORY]