Lulzsec claimed to have attacked News International, owner of the Sun newspaper website, on which a false story was planted suggesting that the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, had died.

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He planted beech saplings in a well-spaced circle and, according to one story, then carried bottles of water up the slope to irrigate his saplings daily on that arid summit.

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Back in 1993, NBC famously admitted it had planted remote control explosives under the bed of a General Motors pickup for a story portraying GM trucks as vulnerable to fiery explosions in side-impact collisions.

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That bomb, planted in a car trunk outside the mall, was large enough to have toppled the three-story mall and killed hundreds of people.

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Miller called the planted question a "bad idea" intended to create an initial IRS apology by Lerner before the story broke with the release of the inspector general's report.

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