Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Voice of America Apologizes for Fake Interview with Russian Blogger

Voice of America apologized Feb. 2 for running a fake interview with "well-known Russian opposition blogger Alexi Navalny," according to...

Public radio program This American Life retracted a report on Apple by Mike Daisey that was "the single most popular...

In The Oregonian's correction of its original obituary for one of its editors, Bob Caldwell, the newspaper revealed that Caldwell...

According to Media Bistro's TV Newser, Fox News didn't make "a rather awful series of graphic mistakes...when reporting a story...

A spokesperson for North South University in Bangladesh denied news articles written about it and said the university plans to contact the...

CNN and the Houston Chronicle reported information from a Will Ferrell Twitter account that turned out to be fake, the...

Just before April 1, the Bakersfield Californian issued a retraction for an "item in Friday's Outdoors column, by Steve Merlo." ...

Wisconsin's County Line newspaper published a fake story for April Fools' Day, ABC-affiliate News 18-WQOW reported. The article claimed that...

One thousand and fifty Chinese science journals announced a commitment against unethical work, Chinese national news agency Xinhua reported. The...