Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

British Men Says They Drunkenly Ended up in Syria & at Least 8 Outlets Believed Them

No, three British men didn't drunkenly end up in Syria. It seems like a no-brainer that the story was a...

The UK Sun, Mirror and Daily Record all falsely claimed hypnotist Paul McKenna was drunk on a plane to Barbados...

What is going on with 84-year-old journalist Gay Talese and his new book The Voyeur's Motel? On June 30, the...

Australia's The Age, a Melbourne-based daily newspaper, fired freelancer Tara Kenny after learning she faked features for a style column called...

Wayne Simmons, a former Fox News commentator who claimed he worked for the CIA for decades, was sentenced to 33...

The Daily Mail has apparently deleted an article after being accused of publishing a fake interview. Italian soccer player Andrea Pirlo tweeted...

In the past week, there have been a few fake political stories circulating related to the U.S. election and presidency....

ABC News faked a backdrop to make it look like its reporter Linsey Davis was standing just in front of...

BuzzFeed's Craig Silverman reported this week that "viral fake election news outperformed real news on Facebook in final months of...