Hoax This! (short story)

Hoax This! was the sixth short story exclusively published on the Who is Doctor Who? website on 24 April 2005 by the BBC webteam to coincide with the broadcast of World War Three. This story was notable for featuring the UNIT website (which had launched under a week prior), marking the first interaction between two tie-in websites, as well as being the first story on Who is Doctor Who? to address Mickey Smith by name, as up until this point his character had remained anonymous.

Plot
Mickey, now using his real name, writes on Who is Doctor Who? about how, just hours before, he helped the Doctor defeat the Slitheen, and now he sees the world pretending like nothing happened. He continues, referencing the seat of the government is rubble and that a woman nobody ever heard of is now running the country, and stating that moving on is less "freaky" than being in an interplanetary war.

Mickey confesses, expecting what he has to say will be hard to believe, that he has "been in two minds" recently, doubting the evidence, facts, and secrets he uncovered, but is reassured by the emails he receives despite them being nothing new to him. He knows he isn't that brave nor strong nor even that open-minded, but the one thing he absolutely isn't, is a liar.

Mickey also writes about the Doctor, stating that he is beginning to think that the Doctor does mean well, but is still suspicious that he was in some way indirectly responsible for bringing the war to Earth.

Moving onto another subject, he mentions how UNIT — aka the Spooks, the Men in Black, the UN Alien Army — has now got a website: www.unit.org.uk. He exposes their passwords (telling his friends that they should use them sooner rather than later as UNIT will likely change them soon), and that if they "nose around", they'll find many "hair-raising" truths about how the Slitheen weren't the first aliens mankind has met which UNIT dealt with.

Concluding with an editorial, Mickey reveals that the Doctor gave a virus on a CD disc that would erase him from the Internet; but Mickey is apologetic, as he cannot bring himself to use it, as he doesn't want the Doctor to continue to make decisions on humanity's behalf, adding that is enough that he even is in possession of such a virus. However, he does admit, he is ready to use it if the Doctor does pose big enough of a danger.

Entries
The collection of entries is arranged in order, oldest first

Characters
(In order of appearance, oldest first)

Worldbuilding

 * Mickey posts a photograph of the Slitheen.
 * He asks his readers for their alien story.
 * The Slitheen tried to "destroy all life on the planet".
 * Mickey describes the defeat of the Slitheen a "war".
 * Mickey writes that the world is forgetting.
 * It is the morning after he helped the Doctor defeat the Slitheen.
 * Mickey watches and rewatches the the evidence.
 * Sometimes Mickey deletes the emails he receives and sometimes reads them.
 * Mickey reads the lies that circulate.
 * Mickey doesn't fake evidence or exaggerate claims.
 * Mickey refers to the Doctor as a "God of Outer Mystery".
 * Mickey describes UNIT's website as a dotcom.
 * "bison" and "buffalo" are the passwords to the the website.
 * One of the passwords grants access to their "internal bulletin board", while the other lets you "into all kinds of scary stuff".
 * After being given the computer virus by the Doctor, Mickey thought his behaviour was all "I'm the big bad wolf and it's way past your bedtime."
 * This is a small disclaimer about the photographs on the site not necessarily being in the webmaster's copyright, although no infringement is intended.
 * There is a small icon for Campaign for Real Aliens and the "website of the month" distinction from Conspiracy GOLD.

Continuity

 * This story is a sequel to World War Three, as well as the preceding short story Alien landing confirmed as well as the television episode it tied into, Aliens of London.
 * This story, following on from World War Three, involves the passwords given to Mickey by the Doctor to access the UNIT website. In the 2016 audio drama Vampire of the Mind, the Sixth Doctor uses the password "buffalo" once again.