<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Among the many articles recently about the proliferation of fake news, a few have touched on the use (or misuse) of URLs to fool people.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">&nbsp;For example, this story claims that a unicode character was swapped to make people think google was supporting a particular US candidate in the recent election:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://mashable.com/2016/11/21/fake-google-domain/#C87rdUV2IaqL" class="">http://mashable.com/2016/11/21/fake-google-domain/#C87rdUV2IaqL</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are any of you following this angle?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dharma Dailey<br class=""><br class="">Graduate Research Assistant<br class="">emCOMP Lab<br class="">Human Centered Design &amp; Engineering<br class="">University of Washington&nbsp;<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="">
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