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Fact Check Fail: NTSB Says Intern Confirmed Bogus Asiana Pilot Names to KTVU

Bay Area Fox-affiliate KTVU wrongly identified four pilots on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from South Korea, which crashed on the...

Ki Won Suh from Asiana Airlines confirmed in an email to iMediaEthics today Asiana is "considering legal action" against Bay...

The Wall Street Journal was hoaxed by a fake Twitter account for author Joan Didion, Gawker reported. The Journal's July...

USA Today was apparently hoaxed by a source giving a fake name, "Howie Felterbush," for a story about the verdict...

Back in May, a Denver TV news station aired a fake story after being hoaxed by a source, Media Bistro's...

China government-run Xinhua News was hoaxed by a satirical story claiming Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos accidentally bought the Washington Post....

ESPN Radio 104.5 in Albany, N.Y. was hoaxed by a man posing as former New York Yankees baseball player Shane...

Australian radio station 2 Day FM, which in December aired a prank phone call with a hospital treating Kate Middleton,...

Nigerian news outlet Premium Times wrongly reported that retired military official Ajibola Kunle Togun died. Togun is a former "security...