David Rose and a Gay Girl in Damascus

But just as the effect of Hari's phoney interviews was to make it seem that he elicited quotes no other journalist could match, so the effect of Wikipedia is to make him seem one of the essential writers of our times.

In truth he disgraced himself because he was an ambitious man who might have been a good journalist, but yearned to be a great one, and so tried to summon a talent he could never possess by bragging and scheming.

http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2011/07/who-is-david-rose.html
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/09/hari-rose-wikipedia-admitted
http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2011/09/final-thoughts-on-david-rose.html


Amina Arraf won support for her outspoken criticism of the Syrian regime after she began posting under the name 'A Gay Girl in Damascus'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002101/Is-Gay-Girl-Damascus-blogger-really-student-Edinburgh-University.html

The male American PhD student, studying at Edinburgh, who confessed to being an internet hoaxer masquerading as a lesbian blogger in Damascus has spoken publicly about the reasons behind his deception, saying he was motivated, in part, by his own "vanity".


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/13/gay-girl-damascus-tom-macmaster