"Over the weekend and into yesterday, a photograph circulating widely on the internet showed a sign stuck to the window of a McDonald's restaurant telling customers that blacks will be charged $US1.50 extra "as an insurance measure due in part to a recent string of robberies". The sign sparked a storm of disapproval on Twitter with the image retweeted thousands of times with the tagline "Seriously McDonald's"." I thought this was really real. So now what news should we be reading given that even the mainstream news is jumping on the hoax news bandwagon. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/maccas-jk-rowling-lesbian-bloggers-hoaxers-take-over-the-world-wide-web-20110614-1g127.html