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Fake News Website Posing as the BBC Taken Down

A hoax website imitating the BBC has published fake stories including one that alleges former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

Hackers posted a fake news story to Canadian French-language newspaper Le Devoir's website saying Jean Charest died, CTV reported. The...

Editor's Note : This is a case study of a hoax story as experienced by a reader who was pursuing...

Pittsburgh TV news WPXI aired information from a "spoof report" about the Pittsburgh Steelers' football star Hines Ward, Media Bistro's...

Just before April 1, the Bakersfield Californian issued a retraction for an "item in Friday's Outdoors column, by Steve Merlo." ...

Wisconsin's County Line newspaper published a fake story for April Fools' Day, ABC-affiliate News 18-WQOW reported. The article claimed that...

Israel's Channel 10 TV news aired a hoax story April 29, Israel's Media Watch's Yisrael Medad and Eli Pollak wrote...

A fake story that circulated online May 8 claimed that Abraham Lincoln "patented the basic idea" for Facebook with a...

MSNBC broke down a sensational hoax story that made it through the international media after apparently originating in the UK...