Apologies & Retractions in International News Media

Times of London Falls for Hoax Tweet by Fake Brigitte Macron

The Times of London fell for a parody tweet posing as from Brigitte Macron, the wife of French president Emmanuel...

Newstalk Radio's George Hook upset many listeners when he seemingly blamed rape victims for being raped. In his Sept. 8...

British television news channel Channel 4 named the wrong man as responsible for the March 2017 Westminster attack in London....

A Singapore news site, The Independent, claimed a Malaysian hospital demanded a Singaporean car accident victim pay before he was...

In the panic after the Manchester bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert earlier this year, which killed 22 and...

South Africa's City Press accused a man of bribing a government official to forgive a tax debt. City Press, a Sunday...

George Hook, the Irish radio host who blamed victims on the air for rape earlier this month, is losing his...

Newsweek claimed that Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, was married to two men at the...

Vermont newspaper the Bennington Banner and Iowa newspaper the Telegraph Herald both apologized for publishing what was generally considered an...