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Reflecting on the Amina hoax - coverage, analysis and investigation | The Electronic Intifada

Reflecting on the Amina hoax - coverage, analysis and investigation | The Electronic Intifada: "When we broke the story last Sunday of who was really behind the “Amina” the “Gay Girl in Damascus” blog, revealing it to be Tom MacMaster, an American graduate student living in Scotland, we knew it would get a lot of attention. But even we did not anticipate quite how broad the interest would be.

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