Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Washington Post Misquoted Satire Story, Not Just Duped, Says Daily Currant

iMediaEthics wrote earlier today about the Washington Post's correction after being duped by a satire story claiming Sarah Palin would...

The Knight Foundation paid $20,000 for Jonah Lehrer to speak about his plagiarism and fabrication scandal earlier this week. As...

As iMediaEthics wrote this past weekend, Falkland Islands' only newspaper, the weekly Penguin News, published a fake interview purporting to...

Book publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it will yank Jonah Lehrer's 2010 book How We Decide from the shelves, Michael...

Was the UK Daily Mail hoaxed by a fake Twitter account purporting to be Bashid Mclean, the New York man...

Fox News has owned up and disclosed to readers that it included bad information in a Jan. 21 post about...

The Times of London denied that it was hoaxed by a French satire article, but the evidence against the paper...

News outlets, including Russian news agency Ria Novosti and later the Huffington Post and The Atlantic, were hoaxed by a...

The Times of London admitted in its March 18 edition that its "exclusive" story that there was going to be...