Students of George Mason University, as part of T. Mills Kelly's course, "Lying about the past", have created two popular hoaxes: the "Edward Owens hoax," and the "Reddit serial killer hoax." It is a goal of the course to create a sweeping internet deception. As Kelly stated in the course's syllabus: What's our goal? Buzz, of course! Viral! We want our hoax to be picked up and spread around the Internet like wildfire!