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TMZ Hoaxed : Mistakes Playboy Photo For an Image of John F. Kennedy

Media hoaxes don’t appear to take a break for the holidays and, luckily, neither do hoax-breakers. Monday, celebrity news website...

The New York Times got “punked” this April Fools' Day by a New York personal injury attorney. The newspaper, it...

For the third time this month, The New York Times’ City Room blog may have been caught reporting a hoax...

A Brazilian satire site ran a story on May 4 about an American woman who said she had been impregnated by watching 3-D...

A New Zealand journalist Matt Nippert researched a book based on a true story this spring and discovered that the "true...

British newspaper The Daily Star published an apology July 24 for a July 21 hoax it printed about Rockstar Games,...

Fox News program "Fox & Friends" fell for a satire story earlier this week, reporting the story as factual news....

An ESPN reporter was punked into smashing her hotel window with a toilet tank cover during a fake emergency by...

The Minnesota Star Tribune admitted to publishing quotes from a hoaxer pretending to be the agent of NFL wide receiver...