Hoaxes and Media Hoax - iMediaEthics News Stories

‘Intent to Deceive’ What Art Forgers have in common with Journalism Hoaxers

Deception has been a recurrent theme explored by iMediaEthics over the years. It comes in many flavors. We have, for...

Five TV morning shows were duped last year by a Queens, N.Y., comedian posing as a famous chef. The comedian, Nick...

Bill Murray often earns headlines for his silly off-screen antics, but a satire story has credited him with a feat...

Satire site National Report hoaxed an Massachusetts Institute of Technology blog with its fake story claiming that solar panels were...

Several news sites wrongly reported that actor and comedian Tracy Morgan would have to have his leg amputated. Morgan and...

Brazilian journalist Mario Sergio Conti was duped by a look-a-like soccer coach into publishing fake quotes. Conti published an interview...

It was too good to check! So many media outlet fell hook, line and sinker for a fake story claiming...

MSNBC boasted it secured an "eyewitness exclusive" report about the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in Ukraine this week. But, MSNBC...

Both the Associated Press and New York Daily News were tricked by a parody account claiming it was responsible for...