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CNN hoaxed by FAKE mayor, Chris Dorner Coverage Gone Wrong

CNN was hoaxed by someone posing as Big Bear Lake Mayor Jay Obernolte, according to a note on its live...

Yesterday, CNN deleted information from its live blog on the search for former Los Angeles police officer Chris Dorner and said...

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

The Washington Post's Delia Lloyd thought full-figured Swedish mannequins were a hoax. But the mannequins are real, and the Washington...

A slew of media outlets -- from NBC's Nightly News to ABC's Good Morning America -- were hoaxed by a fake...

San Jose, California daily newspaper The Mercury News fessed up this week to being hoaxed by a joke tweet claiming...

Several news outlets were hoaxed by a story claiming that France would start using drones to deliver newspapers. News outlets...