Culture Feature

Learn from Momo: How to Create a Viral Hoax

It takes time, effort, and incredibly lazy press coverage to exploit the public's fear successfully.

NBC Philadelphia

Somewhere in America's heartland, there's an Internet mastermind targeting children by injecting a monstrous face into kids' content telling them to hurt themselves — or so the "Momo challenge" leads appalled parents to believe.

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