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At trial, Fake Steve proves to be a cowardly Lyons

By Owen Thomas, 6:07 PM on Sun Aug 5 2007, 1,001 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

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New York Times writer Brad Stone was all set to accuse Forbes editor Dan Lyons of being Fake Steve Jobs. The carefully assembled evidence: Phrases like "mwah," "fair enough," and "peace and love" that popped up in both Lyons' blog and Fake Steve's, as well as Lyons' geographical location in Boston, where email headers had long indicated Fake Steve's presence. And Lyons is a published novelist. Faced with this evidence, Lyons didn't even put up a fight.

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