Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Jonah Lehrer Resigns from New Yorker, Admits Fake Bob Dylan Quotes

Jonah Lehrer resigned from the New Yorker yesterday after being busted for fake Bob Dylan quotes in his book Imagine,...

Fake stories were posted to Reuters' blogs August 3 after the "blogging platform" was hacked, the Wall Street Journal reported...

Reuters' blogging website was hacked again and a fake death story was posted, Agence France-Presse reported. The fake story claimed...

SPLIT, Croatia -- Balkan media outlets and an Olympic coach were hoaxed by a fake Twitter account purporting to be...

News outlets published a "test story" from the Associated Press by accident, and are now unpublishing the fake sports story. ...

A "photoshopped fake article" purporting to be from France's TF1 and claiming that Rihanna died from a heart attack is...

After reviewing a selection of Jonah Lehrer's articles for Wired.com, NYU journalism professor Charles Seife determined that Lehrer's work was...

As we wrote yesterday, Arizona newspaper the East Valley Tribune told readers that it had unpublished "several articles" by an...

Fake blog posts were published on Amnesty International's blog, Amnesty tweeted Aug. 27. According to the Associated Press, the hackers...