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Drugs Police didn’t Raid 2 UK schools, UK paper apologizes for ‘misunderstanding’

UK newspaper Yellow Advertiser had to publish a front page apology May 16 for wrongly reporting that drugs police raided…

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Scottish Daily Record Photoshops Man out of Picture

The Daily Record doctored a photo to remove one person but claimed it was OK because the person in question…

Sydney Smith

#Bringourgirlsback Photos NOT from Nigeria, Mislabeled on Social Media, BBC, CBC

Social media and two media outlets have used photos from Guinea-Bissau in their coverage of the Nigerian school girls kidnapped…

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S Korean ferry crash? Tibetan avalanche? Fox News can’t keep it straight

Fox News admitted to mixing up a video clip of a woman reacting to the Mount Everest avalanche in its…

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Reed College Oil Stocks Hoax, 2 Oregon media outlets fooled

A fake press release claimed Oregon's Reed College said it was going to divest its holdings of fossil fuel stocks. …

London Allen

Nat’l Journal dumps comments section after ‘worst kind of abusive, racist, and sexist name-calling imaginable’

The National Journal is getting rid of most online comments because it has been filled with "the worst kind of…

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7 Fake Weather Photos to watch out for in the 2014 Hurricane Season

The Weather Channel collected a handful of oft-used fake photos of weather to hopefully warn viewers to not be duped…

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Texas Public Radio Retracts, Man Lied about Iraq Service

Texas Public Radio aired a hoax story last week after a man named Victor Martinez lied to them about his…

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IDing victim as transgender in UK papers was ‘upsetting and irrelevant’

Scientist Dr. Kate Stone was the victim of a horrible accident on New Year's Eve when she was "gored in…

London Allen

You’re Fired! CNN Editor Marie-Louise Gumuchian Plagiarized ‘About 50’ Articles

CNN fired news editor Marie-Louise Gumuchian for plagiarism in "about 50 published stories," according to an editor's note posted on…

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