Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Robert Mugabe didn’t say Kenyans were Thieves, NYTimes Published Fake Quote

The New York Times published fake quotes attributed to Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. The fake quotes came from...

The U.S. State Department says that Russian newspaper Izvestia was hoaxed by fake letters, the New York Times reported. Izvestia...

Have fun explaining this one to your kids: Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten told its readers that Santa Claus was dead. Earlier this month,...

Seventeen years later, notorious fabricator Stephen Glass finally has fessed up to what he faked in his story for Harper's Magazine,...

The Nigerian Tribune fessed up to publishing a fake interview and fired the reporter who was duped. The fake interviewee posed...

Entertainment news site Deadline was duped by a satire story about Sean Penn and ISIS this afternoon. Just a day...

This weekend, entertainment news site Deadline was duped by satirist Andy Borowitz's New Yorker blogpost joking that after Sean Penn's...

David Bowie's last gig before his death was not at a curry house. A satire site, the Suffolk Gazette, published...

European news organization Central European News and its founder Michael Leidig are suing BuzzFeed for defamation for $11 million, The Hollywood...