by Sydney Smith on Dec 31, 2011
Times of South Africa Tweets Fake News, Deletes Tweet, Apologizes
South African newspaper The Times apologized for "tweeting an inaccurate report that former President Nelson Mandela had been hospitalised," the...
Fake News
by Sydney Smith on Jan 04, 2012
Wendi Deng Twitter account Fake, Associated Press Corrects, Guardian Unpublishes
Over the weekend, two high-profile Twitter accounts garnered a good bit of attention -- @RupertMurdoch and @Wendi_Deng. However, only one...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 05, 2012
Ad Age Denies Making Rihanna Poll, HuffPost Unpublishes Story
Ad Age claims the Daily Mail's Dec. 28 report about an Ad Age poll is wrong because Ad Age never...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 20, 2012
Italian State TV Aired Old Footage of Another Cruise Ship in its Concordia Coverage
Italian state TV news outlet Rai wrongly aired 2010 footage as if it were from the cruise ship Costa Concordia,...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 24, 2012
SC Voters Sent e-mail Posing as CNN Jan.19
Last week, an e-mail posing as a CNN news alert was "sent to Republican activists in South Carolina" on Jan....
by Sydney Smith on Jan 25, 2012
Nigerian Govt says Advertorial has Fake News, Complaining to Press Council
Three Lagos, Nigeria government officials including Lagos' attorney general questioned an advertorial published in the Nigerian Tribune, national newspaper Leadership...
by Malik Ayub Sumbal , Rhonda Roland Shearer on Feb 06, 2012
Why A.Q. Khan Breaks Interview Ban for iMediaEthics, His Wrath over The Atlantic, William Langewiesche’s ‘Lies,’ The Atlantic Fact Checker’s Fail
Highlights: iMediaEthics exclusively Interviews A.Q. Khan Despite Court Ban Khan falsely accused of “brazen act of illegality” by The Atlantic,...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 07, 2012
Dutch TV Denies Flesh Eating Segment a Hoax or Publicity Stunt
According to numerous international news reports, two Dutch TV hosts, Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno, reportedly "ate each other's freshly...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 12, 2012
Katy Perry uses Cocaine? Gather Retracts 2 False Stories
Gather published a lengthy retraction Feb. 10 of fake claims that singer Katy Perry uses cocaine. The fake claims were...