Behind the 12-Year-Old Wii Sports Hoax That Briefly Fooled the Internet

Before his resignation in late 2017, Uber's then-CEO Travis Kalanick faced more than his fair share of scandals. But by far the most (read: least) important of these was Kalanick's oft-repeated claim that, at one point, he "held the world’s second-highest score for the Nintendo Wii Tennis video game," as a New York Times profile confidently stated without qualification.