Spanish hacks play with Whackypedia

According to Barrapunto, two Spanish TV stations in Spain, one public and the other private, both had the same wizard wheeze about writing a "good" silly season story.

What the cunning plan was that they would go into the site, vandalise a bit of it, and then write up a story on how unreliable the encyclopaedia was.

They described how John Lennon was obsessed with Paella and the date of Elvis Presley's death by sandwich on the toilet from 1977 to 2007.

Both stations said they were performing an "experiment" to check the reaction time of Wikipedia to their bogus changes. Unfortunately for the hacks, Wackypedia was pretty quick in this case and the changes were fairly swift.

Surely it would have been easier just to visit a few pages and see how the fake penis experts at Wackypedia alter reality to make sure that people who they disagree with vanish from history?

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