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Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax, Should News Outlets Correct Stories?

Last week, media outlets and the online community reported on the alleged kidnapping of Amina Arraf, the lesbian blogger in...

News of the World has agreed to pay athlete Artur Boruc £70,000 in a libel settlement after the newspaper published...

Add a fake dog stoning story to the (long) list of June's hoax stories that includes a Gay Girl in...

iMediaEthics wrote last month when the lesbian blogger Amina Arraf of "Gay Girl in Damascus" was revealed as a hoax sock-puppet...

A video blog from a man named Marc Pax "claiming to be an American gay rights activist" turned out to be...

In late June, a story claiming Jewish people wouldn't be able to fly to Saudi Arabia on Delta Air Lines circulated...

Utah newspaper the Deseret News has unpublished a story after it was revealed to be a hoax, according to SBC...

Media outlets ranging from the BBC and Los Angeles Times to PC World New Zealand and CNet were hoaxed by...

Motorboat and Yachting magazine reported in late July that a "£3 billion golden superyacht story" is a fake. The superyacht...