Fake news: When Google bought Apple for 5 minutes

Fake news: When Google bought Apple for 5 minutes

Business: A false dispatch from the Dow Jones agency announced the buy-back of the apple for a friend price of $ 9 billion. Nobody believed it but ...

False stock market information is an old way, like the Internet, of shifting the stock price of certain stocks in order to obtain attractive capital gains. Sometimes the scam works, but often the strings are too big to hook the speculator.

                                                           The false dispatch

This is the case of this false Dow Jones dispatch broadcast on Tuesday via the wire of the financial news agency and announcing the acquisition of Apple by Google to create "the tech giant" ... Despite the legitimate source (because Dow Jones was indeed hacked to spread this fake news), the published elements were not likely to trap anybody.

The amount of the transaction first: only 9 billion dollars, a real friend price when we know that Apple's capitalization exceeds 800 billion ... Then we learn that the first discussions took place in 2010 with Steve Jobs and that the agreement would have been confirmed in the will of the founder of the apple. Of course. Especially when one knows the little esteem that Jobs had for the giant Mountain View.

So many fanciful elements that have not caused a movement of funds on Wall Street.

The Dow Jones agency obviously promptly responded by stating: "The information was published following a technical incident, all of which will be erased, and we apologize for the error." Still, this case, which can be smiling, questions the security of the American institution and the possible other incidents that could multiply and create artificial movements in the markets.

In 2014, a real false page of ZDNet.fr announced the redemption of the French Whithings by Apple. By observing the url, one could discover the scam, nevertheless, the information had been taken over by the social networks. The diversion of legitimate sources to disseminate false financial information is therefore not new ...