Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Info on the Internet

Over the years, there have been many counterfeit, malicious, and ficticious internet web sites that create disinformation on many subjects. Misinformation is usually thought to mean "wrong" information, while alot of the issues that are brought up as incorrect are more based on opinion rather than fact. To start, we have counterfeit web sites. Counterfeit sites mainly disguise themselves as the real web site just to create "disseminating" misinformation. These sites can be divided into several categories: political, fun, of instructional. On the other hand we have suspicious web sites, by which the reading states that there are too many to even list on paper. Some contain photographs of lynching and hate crimes while other sites try to claim that certain historical events did not place, like the Holocaust. News on the internet has been a huge problem as well with even news professionals on Fox News and ESPN. In the U.S., many internet "goers" rely on the news they search for on the web and the search should be credible, but it isn't always. Disinformation is defined as the the dissemination of deliberately false information, which came into use in 1954. With that comes the possible severity of harmful and incorrect information when it comes to health and businesses, which can lead to serious injury or even leave a business in financila ruin. I do not know what kind of person you have to be in order to understate or completely post a website with false information to intentionally harm someone. I hope people that do that and get in trouble for it suffer the consequences. I mean, would that not be a serious offense?
Most of the time, attckes to a corporate website are usually due to someone who is upset about losing there job, angry customers, or even citizens who are very serious about their political views. Next, you have parodies and spoofs, which are pretty much the same thing. Many people everyday end up searching a spoofed web site, however, I think this day in age has become a very gullible societ believing, or wanting to believe everything they hear and see. I think that as long as the internet is around, we will always hear of rebellion, viruses, scams, and false information, but it is up to us to "look past the hood of our car" and dig deeper so that one day not everyone will be sucked into the the dissemination of information.