{"podcast":{"title":"Proof Positive","slug":"proof-positive-7769387","podcast_index_feed_id":7769387,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/PODAGEN1376325340","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/888b1f84-0357-11f1-befc-ab71d1d198c5/image/70b2158e31ae217cacd060fb38c52caa.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Daniel Torres","episode_count":108,"summary":"What happens when the official story doesn't add up? Join Daniel Torres as he picks apart the cases, scandals, and mysteries that everyone else stopped asking questions about. This isn't your typical true crime podcast — it's investigative documentary work that digs into current events, historical cover-ups, and social issues that deserve a second look. Daniel spent eight years as a freelance journalist chasing down everything from small-town corruption to corporate whistleblowers. He started this podcast because the best stories always had too many layers for a newspaper article. Now he's using that same dogged reporting to unpack the investigations that matter, the ones that got buried, and the ones that are still happening right now. Each episode is a deep dive into real documentation — court filings, leaked memos, forgotten archives. You'll hear the actual evidence, not just opinions about it. Daniel breaks down complex cases so you can understand what really went down and why it matters today. Sometimes he even convinces his neighbors to share their weird hobbies, which honestly makes for surprisingly good radio. Ready to question everything you thought you knew? Follow Proof…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T18:19:49.347648+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/proof-positive-7769387"},"episode":{"title":"Two College Kids Fooled Wikipedia for 10 Years With This Fake Medieval Knight","slug":"two-college-kids-fooled-wikipedia-for-10-years-with-this-fake-medieval-knight","published_at":"2026-07-26T15:03:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/proof-positive-7769387/two-college-kids-fooled-wikipedia-for-10-years-with-this-fake-medieval-knight","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/proof-positive-7769387","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PODAGEN8977888119.mp3?updated=1776260274","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PODAGEN8977888119.mp3?updated=1776260274","summary":"What if I told you that two college kids convinced the entire internet that a completely made-up medieval knight was real history? For over 10 years, \"Ser Amador\" fooled Wikipedia, academic blogs, and thousands of researchers. In this episode, Daniel Torres breaks down the most successful Wikipedia hoax in history and what it reveals about how we decide what's \"true\" online. 🎯 What You'll Learn: • How the fake knight entry survived for a decade despite Wikipedia's 120,000 active editors • The 15+ websites that cited this fictional character as historical fact • Why Wikipedia's verification system failed so spectacularly in this case • The psychology behind why false information spreads faster than truth 👤 Perfect for: anyone who's ever wondered how reliable the information we take for granted actually is. 📍 Chapters: [00:00] Daniel Torres introduces the decade-long Wikipedia deception [02:15] Meet the college students who created medieval history [04:45] How \"Ser Amador\" fooled academic researchers [07:30] The moment the hoax finally unraveled [09:45] What this means for everything you read online [11:30] Why fake news spreads so effectively This isn't just about a prank gone viral. It's about the fragile system we use to separate fact from fiction in the digital age. When two university students can create \"history\" that gets cited in research papers, what does that say about the rest of what we believe? The students expected their joke to last maybe a week. Instead, they accidentally proved how easy it is to manufacture truth when nobody's really checking. Pretty wild when you think about how much we rely on crowd-sourced information. 🔔 Never miss an episode: Follow Proof Positive on Spotify and Apple Podcasts for daily investigations that question the official story…","meta_description":"What if I told you that two college kids convinced the entire internet that a completely made-up medieval knight was real history? 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