hoax

１．今日の単語は hoax です。このところ目にする単語かもしれないですね。

Texas man gets 15 months in prison for Facebook COVID hoax – (NEXSTAR) — A man’s social media threats to spread COVID-19 at San Antonio-area grocery stores resulted in a 15-month prison sentence, prosecutors announced Monday. A judge sentenced 40-year-old Christopher Charles Perez after he was found guilty in June of disseminating false information and hoaxes related to biological weapons, according to a statement from the Department of Justice. “Trying to scare people with the threat of spreading dangerous diseases is no joking matter,” said U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff. “This office takes seriously threats to harm the community and will prosecute them to the full extent of the law.” (from WGN9)

コロナ関連の hoax が多いですね。

Schools warn about hoax anti-vaccine letters – School leaders have warned about being targeted by hoax Covid vaccine consent letters, which aim to spread anti-vaccine messages to parents in England. Head teachers have been sent a “consent checklist”, under a fake NHS logo, along with a letter telling them to share this with parents. But the checklist includes a series of negative claims about the risks of vaccinations to young people. Head teachers’ leaders say the hoax letters are “massively unhelpful”. “We would appeal for those behind these fake consent forms to stop circulating them,” said Julie McCulloch of the ASCL head teachers’ union. (from BBC)

これもコロナですね。

The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax.

爆弾を仕掛けたという脅しは hoax だとわかった。

He’d made a hoax call claiming to be the president.

大統領から電話かかってきます？！

２．予想しやすい単語でしたね。では、英英辞典と英和辞典の意味を確認しておきましょう。

a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick:

to deceive, especially by playing a trick on someone

A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that there is a bomb somewhere when there is not, or that a picture is genuine when it is not.

something intended to deceive or defraud:

〔人を〕だます［かつぐ］こと

〔人をだますための〕でっち上げ、作り話

今日の単語は

hoax デマ、でっち上げ

でした

3カ月前の単語は chafe 擦れる、イライラ

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