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Alabama’s Monster Pig Hoax, one year later

Editor's Note : Rhonda Roland Shearer is the director of Art Science Research Laboratory, which she founded with her late...

Chris Cheesman at Amateur Photographer reported "The BBC, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph have today admitted that picture editors...

Chris Cheesman writes: "Some newspapers appear to have fallen for a story in which it was claimed a photographer narrowly...

BBC News' Mark Easton writes: "Some hoaxes are for financial gain. Others for revenge or to make some political point....

It was August 2006 in Maine.. a strange creature's carcass was found. Hey, wait a minute. This sounds just like...

The New York Times is under fire after printing a falsified letter to the editor in the December 22 edition,...

Assumptions about common knowledge can be very dangerous. As the saying goes, a journalist even needs to check "if his mother loves him."...

How can every professional reporter be fooled but a blogger --who doesn't have the same resources available--realizes he should doggedly...

The most recent extreme scary animal photos published by bloggers and mainstream media was almost instantly identified as a hoax...