Duncan Levin in The Boston Globe: How a Wikipedia Joke Became an Internet “Fact”

In a Boston Globe Ideas essay, Duncan Levin writes about how a mischievous Wikipedia edit about his grandfather, Brooklyn dentist Morris M. Blum, metastasized across the internet into a widely repeated claim that Blum had “invented” lamination. The piece uses the story to examine how misinformation gains authority through repetition — a problem familiar to lawyers, journalists, investigators, and anyone now navigating AI-generated claims.

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