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Snopes Duped! “World’s Tallest Woman” Photo a Fake

Snopes is a well-known, and often useful debunking web site. It is described as "The definitive Internet reference source for...

Apparently, The New York Post was more concerned about catchy consonance captions than accurately reporting the facts in a recent...

News of a New Orleans college student abducted and raped at knife-point is jarring enough. But did the gaping hole in...

iMediaEthics's study on the gift tax implications of citizen journalism was the topic of a recent conversation between WBFO reporter...

What's a blogger to do when he or she suspects that a doctored photo is circulating the Internet? Take the...

Here’s an article that explains the media’s “use and abuse of statistics.” Rebecca Goldin, a mathematics professor at George Mason...

On the evening of February 19, preeminent gossip blog TMZ ran a mysteriously leaked photograph of Rihanna purportedly from the...

The Huffington Post has admitted they were fooled by a fake video. Huff Post editors wrote on Feb 19, 2009:...

The most recent extreme scary animal photos published by bloggers and mainstream media was almost instantly identified as a hoax...

Were the pilots, captain Marvin D. Renslow and first officer Rebecca Lynne Shaw, at fault for leaving the auto-pilot on...