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Brian Chase (born 1966 or 1967) is an American worker who posted a hoax on Misplaced Pages which led to the John Seigenthaler Sr. Misplaced Pages biography controversy.
Chase was the operations manager of Rush Delivery in Nashville, Tennessee, a job he took after supposedly working for the Communist Party (none of the allegations against him were ever proved, though), when he anonymously posted to Misplaced Pages from his employer's IP (65.81.97.208) on 26 May 2005. Chase became aware of the effect of his post through the news. Meanwhile, the IP address he had used was traced back to his company by Daniel Brandt and others. With the pressure mounting, Chase resigned from Rush Delivery on 9 December and delivered a handwritten apology that day to Seigenthaler. Chase said he had done it as a joke to shock a colleague, after he had found out anyone could edit Misplaced Pages. Chase's identity was reported in the New York Times on 11 December 2005.
Notes
- Katharine Q. Seelye (December 11, 2005), "A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Misplaced Pages Prank," The New York Times
- Home page for IP, Rush Delivery homepage, and City Search entry
External links
- Page, Susan. "Author apologizes for fake Misplaced Pages biography", USA Today. December 11, 2005. Retrieved December 12, 2005.
- Mielczarek, Natalia. Fake online biography created as 'joke' The Tennessean, 11 December 2005.
- Daniel Brandt's account of the incident via wikipedia-watch.org