Style Blog: A year of Internet hoaxes: Fake events but very real coverage

Internet hoaxes existed long before 2013, and they'll continue to dupe the unsuspecting long after the year is done. But as many a pundit has decried already, 2013 marked a sort of zenith for online fakeries. It was the year the media decisively elevated social media phenomena, real or imagined, to the level of actual news.