French professor investigated for awarding himself fake prize

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8pwjdp6do

The academic is accused of dreaming up the prize he went on to win and has been suspended from his university.

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deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 109d

Dude didn’t know when to stop and awarded one to a Romanian colleague, which got reported in the news.

Then this genius held a conference on fake news and people started asking about his own fake news.