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Student Duped Media Using Wikipedia to Test Accuracy…

AFP reports "An Irish student's fake quote on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia has been used in newspaper obituaries around the...

New York City media outlets, including Channel 7 Eyewitness News and 1010 WINS radio, fell for a fake press release...

In what is being described by some bloggers as the Great Firewall of China, the Chinese government is making no...

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

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

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

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

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

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