by Sydney Smith on Nov 01, 2017
Cambridge University not ‘forced’ to drop white authors, Telegraph corrects
Maybe the reporters and editors at The Daily Telegraph should go back to school because they just flunked interpretive reading. To...
Fake News
by Sydney Smith on Nov 09, 2017
Fake Quotes & Plagiarism in University of Wyoming Student Newspaper
The Branding Iron, the student newspaper for the University of Wyoming, published a story that featured fake quotes and plagiarized...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 14, 2017
Athens, Georgia News Site Duped by fake UGA former quarterback Greyson Lambert
The Athens Banner-Herald's web edition, OnlineAthens, was thrown for a loss by a fake interview with someone posing as former...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 04, 2017
Fighting Fake News: 2 Canadian Public Editors Weigh In
In their recent columns, two Canadian public editors, Sylvia Stead of the Globe and Mail and Kathy English of the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 11, 2018
Boston Herald suspends Ron Borges after Tom Brady salary hoax
The Boston Herald suspended sports columnist Ron Borges after he was duped by a hoaxer posing as New England Patriots...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 24, 2018
German newspaper Bild duped by fake Russian trolls e-mails
Germany's widest-circulating newspaper, Bild, was hoaxed by fake e-mails claiming Russian trolls were working with the Social Democrat Party to mess...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 10, 2018
Houston Chronicle reporter resigns, paper can’t find sources
The Houston Chronicle cannot find sources from reporter Mike Ward's recent work, leading to Ward's resignation from the newspaper. Nancy...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 04, 2018
USA Today’s Brett Kavanaugh basketball story edited, gets opinion label
USA Today published an article saying Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh "should stay off basketball courts for now when kids...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 20, 2018
Der Spiegel reporter faked interviews, quotes, sources in at least 14 articles
Der Spiegel reporter Claas Relotius fabricated interviews and sources "on a grand scale," the German news magazine revealed. Relotius admitted...