Joey Skaggs visited Vienna, Austria, in June. Coincidentally, a surreptitiously filmed video had just been released showing the far-right Freedom Party’s leader and then vice chancellor of the Austrian government, Heinz-Christian Strache, scheming to overthrow the rest of the government. In the video, Strache, thinking he’s talking
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“Some projects could not be performed today. I would be in jail.” Joey Skaggs showed the Slovenian media that they are no less naive than the Americans. Rough English Translation from Delo, the Slovenian national newspaper, June 30, 2019: American conceptual media artist Joey Skaggs has held
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From Canadaland: “The greatest media prankster alive talks to Jesse for our April Fools episode” Spoiler alert! Interview with Joey starts 8 minutes in.
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This is an amusing, ridiculous, and absurd story. But more importantly, it’s an example of how a story can grow from a snowflake into an avalanche. Particularly when the media is interested in nothing more than creating click-bait to enhance its bottom line. It started with this
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The Art of the Prank, by Movie Critic ND, October 1, 2017 It seems like you can’t turn around these days without running into the term fake news. And while it’s true that it is, paradoxically, even easier to fool people when basically all the information in
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REEL PSYCHED: The Art of the Prank Unmasks Joey Skaggs, Father of Fake News by Razi Syed, Bedford + Bowery, September 28, 2017 In Art of the Prank, set to release on October 9, longtime New Yorker and media hoaxer Joey Skaggs is gearing up to pull
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Nello Barile writes: “Joey Skaggs is proof that the post-truth has always existed”, Motherboard, January 26, 2017 …Skaggs, come si è visto, è il supremo trickster del Media Hoaxing. Un folle, un folletto o un joker post-situazionista che con la sua ironia ha creato assurdi pseudo-eventi per
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Fake News: The Relentless Pursuit of Mind Control, by Joey Skaggs, Huffington Post, November 29, 2016 The news media is all a-flutter with headlines about the rise and proliferation of fake news media: “Did Russia Install Donald Trump As the Next U.S. President?” “It’s About To Get
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