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spoof

[spoof] / spuf /


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For years, North Korean hackers have landed IT work or infiltrated companies by creating spoof social-media accounts, or recruited outsiders to lend their identities for payment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Innes said we could not be sure whether all of the pages' thousands of followers were real people, adding page owners often used bots to "spoof the algorithm" and get content into people's feeds.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

Instead, they went with tracks like “Superbird,” a spoof of President Lyndon B. Johnson, which received little to no backlash.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026

Russia and other countries also spoof GPS, broadcasting fake signals to throw off receivers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

This reminded Jonah of a spoof he’d seen once in MAD magazine that was supposed to teach kids how to lie convincingly.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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