Errors and Inaccuracies in the News Media

Astronaut Scott Kelly’s DNA didn’t change 7% in Space, Live Science Corrects

Live Science reported that 7 percent of astronaut Scott Kelly's DNA changed when he was in space. But now, the...

Talk about jumping the gun. The acting FBI director Andrew McCabe was fired last night, but Fox News published a...

The Intercept posted a significant correction in a March 26 story, "ICE uses Facebook data to find and track suspects,...

iMediaEthics latest correction round-up includes Moses and millenials. Moses did not bring water from Iraq. The Wall Street Journal reported...

The conspiracy theory website InfoWars wrongly published a photo of Marcel Fontaine, labeling him as the Parkland high school shooter....

Agence France Presse labeled photos of Mark Zuckerberg's executive assistant Andrea Besmehn as photos of his wife, Priscilla Chan. Christian...

A column in the Church Times claimed that Reverend Giles Fraser took a "freebie" trip to Syria last month that...

The Australian Daily Telegraph claimed that "PC vandals" were "threatening to tear down or alter" monuments in Sydney, Australia. But...

The Washington Post cited information from a satirical article in a news story about a UK protest campaign to make...