Comments on: French Press Falls For Major Facebook Prank

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Link-o-Rama #10 (B is for Blog) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:40:53 +0000

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Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:13:18 +0000

[...] French Press Falls For Major Facebook Prank [...]

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nichodges.com » When conversations become content, part 1 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:11:20 +0000

[...] media outlets simply following what’s happening online (in the case of the French press, embarrasingly so). Services like Twitter have already been responsible for breaking reports of earthquakes and for [...]

By: Charles Nouÿrit

Charles Nouÿrit — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:48:12 +0000

Ouriel,

The group on Facebook have been closed by them and my account disabled for that…

Here’s Facebook email:

“Hello,

The group “Pour la destitution immédiate de M. Arash Derambarsh” has been removed because it violated our Terms of Use. Among other things, groups that are hateful, threatening, or obscene are not allowed. We also take down groups that attack an individual or group, or advertise a product or service. Continued misuse of Facebook’s features could result in your account being disabled.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page at http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=34.

The Facebook Team”

And this one before:

“Hi,

Your account has been disabled for persistent misuse of the site. Please contact disabled@facebook.com for more information.

The Facebook Team”

By: The President of Facebook is a fake | Google and me

The President of Facebook is a fake | Google and me — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:30:57 +0000

[...] when I was suppose to write a Fcuk Facebook post this even more ridicules story came from techcrunch.com. Some French guy made up a story that he was voted the President of Facebook and even got a [...]

By: Geekaholic

Geekaholic — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:09:50 +0000

French Press Falls For Major Facebook Prank…

One of those things that make you stop an go ‘WTF?’. Hilarious read ……

By: a p f e l k r a u t . o r g » Madames et Monsieurs … le président de Facebook! applause

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:04:13 +0000

[...] for example TechCrunch.com writes in “French Press Falls For Major Facebook Prank” it all started with a simple application called “Facebook President”. With this [...]

By: Xenophon

Xenophon — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:59:33 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhlERjW0bhw

By: buz

buz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:09:55 +0000

maybe the french media were simply hoping and desparately looking for their next great hope……look at sarkozy’s antics, you think only the french journalists get duped?!?!?!?!!!!!!!

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:23:06 +0000

@Harshal Vaidya: Are you serious? As opposed to media from what? US? India? China? Where?

By: Saeid Azish

Saeid Azish — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:48:50 +0000

Oh, that’s because he’s a smart Iranian.

By: kwyxz

kwyxz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:56:07 +0000

As a french Facebook user, I will totally backup Ouriel here. What he describes is completely true. The french press really BOUGHT it. Stop talking about “french bashing” here, Ouriel IS french.

So yeah, here’s the thing. The french press talks about something it doesn’t understand or know a clue about, gets pranked by a fraud who is nothing but a smart-pimped attention whore, and now it has lost credib… wait, did the french press still have credibility ? It is just yet another proof that our so-called “journalists” are nothing but followers, speaking of something only because everyone is speaking about it and carefully letting slip real news into oblivion.

Investigating ? Bah. Leave it to “Le Canard Enchainé”.

No wonder why fewer and fewer people trust the media everyday in France.

By: Comment the web

Comment the web — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:29:33 +0000

Hooked on Facebook…

So when I was first introduced to Facebook.com over the summer, I thought it was for people with nothing better to do; Today, I’m an addict - a full-blown Facebook junkie. I never figured that a Web site would end up occupying so much of my day.
…

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:45:33 +0000

This is proof that the old dinosaur media is really crumbling. You telling me that not one journalist couldn’t checked it out themselves before committing to a story?

Whether this guy was a poor misguided fool or just doing the whole thing for a publicity stunt is neither here nor there, this is indicative of just how sh!t the main stream media is nowadays.

Comment from Harshal Vaidya, I couldn’t agree more. English newspapers are a joke and I don’t trust ANYTHING anymore without getting at least three to five differing reports now.

Overall though, f*ck FaceBook. I hate it.

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medienlese.com » Blog Archiv » 6 vor 9 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:56:46 +0000

[...] French Press Falls For Major Facebook Prank (techcrunch.com, Ouriel Ohayon) “This is probably the biggest hoax in the history of Facebook.” [...]

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חורים ברשת » Archive » כולם לעבור לדום ולקבל את נשיא פייסבוק — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:53:49 +0000

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By: MYBLOG by Ouriel

MYBLOG by Ouriel — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:20:24 +0000

On the FakeBook President and fact checking…

The story on the Facebook fake president made a lot of noise in France and now outside France. While i was writing the story for TechCrunch it reminded me of an excellent movie based a on true story called “The…

By: Harshal Vaidya

Harshal Vaidya — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:55:53 +0000

European media is a joke anyway. I lived in London for a year and used to read tabloids regularly. Mainstream newspapers try to separate themselves from the tabloids by engaging into huge fights consuming articles over articles in the papers. I’d never trust EU media. Especially French and British.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:58:31 +0000

Frogs, crazy.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:59:57 +0000

Ahhh the media always jumping the gun w/o researching any of the facts… good times…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:35:49 +0000

This, in my opinion, got really out of hand. Facebook has politely requested that we remove all references to Facebook within our app and take down FacebookPresident.com.

We also have to do some more maintenance on the app because users are now using bots to create fake facebook accounts and spam for votes.

Our company ClutterMe Inc. is the creator of ClutterMe.com. We’re a two person start-up and we make Facebook applications in addition to maintaining ClutterMe.com.

For more information on us, please visit, http://blog.clutterme.com.

By: Andrew Baron

Andrew Baron — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:27:38 +0000

Hey Gilles, I can see you now peering over your glasses - the accent comes through in your writing as well as in speech

So now that we have a President, what do we want?

I’d like for the advertisers to start paying sales tax so we can get some new playing fields.

By: maya

maya — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:06:45 +0000

his name is catchy… “arash derambarsh”… i like to say it again and again. french presidents have cool names. even “sarkozy”… its a cool name to say.

By: Ouriel Ohayon

Ouriel Ohayon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:05:00 +0000

Come on give me a break or i’ll give you a lesson of French

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:00:58 +0000

I agree with #18 and 19. The post is awful. I thought this article was hard to follow until I read the following:

“But Facebook users are not fools and a group arises, denouncing the whole thing. ZDnet France spots the hoax, bloggers follow up quickly and the truth comes to light.”

I stopped reading the article after I read that piece. I will stop reading TechCrunch if this continues. Come on Arrington! I’ve never complained about the writing here, but this is horrible.