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BBspot was a geek satire and humour web site founded in 2000. In 2003, the site was successful enough that webmaster "quit his day job" and made the site his full-time vocation. BBspot is most notable for its technology news satire. The most successful hoaxes by BBspot include an article about premium accounts on Twitter and claims about the MPAA conducting surveillance in private residences.

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  • BBspot was a geek satire and humour web site founded in 2000. In 2003, the site was successful enough that webmaster "quit his day job" and made the site his full-time vocation. BBspot is most notable for its technology news satire. The most successful hoaxes by BBspot include an article about premium accounts on Twitter and claims about the MPAA conducting surveillance in private residences. BBspot is a founding member of HumorFeed, a community of news satire webmasters; Briggs is also a member of the editorial board for Check Please!, a journal devoted to the serious examination of news satire and journalism. Content updates to BBSpot ceased in November 2011, experiencing intermittent down time in the years that followed. It resumed in December 2017 with the story "Valve Contracts George R. R. Martin to Complete Half-Life Story". (en)
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  • BBspot was a geek satire and humour web site founded in 2000. In 2003, the site was successful enough that webmaster "quit his day job" and made the site his full-time vocation. BBspot is most notable for its technology news satire. The most successful hoaxes by BBspot include an article about premium accounts on Twitter and claims about the MPAA conducting surveillance in private residences. (en)
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