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LAT Readers Rep on the Dentist Hoax

Los Angeles Times readers represenative Deirdre Edgar pointed out that the newspaper reported a hoax story as fact in a...

The Huffington Post and Mediaite both were hoaxed by a spoof Twitter account purporting to belong to North Carolina governor Bev...

Fake photos of shark swimming in floodwaters at the bottom of escalators are circulating on social media, Discovery News reported....

A CNN iReport post wrongly reported that musician Gotye died, blog Zap2it reported>. The iReport, which has since been removed and...

Last month, media outlets such as ABC News' Good Morning America, WPIX, and the New York Daily News were duped...

A fake op-ed defending WikiLeaks purporting to written by former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller is circulating. Keller...

Fake stories were posted to Reuters' blogs August 3 after the "blogging platform" was hacked, the Wall Street Journal reported...

SPLIT, Croatia -- Balkan media outlets and an Olympic coach were hoaxed by a fake Twitter account purporting to be...

A "photoshopped fake article" purporting to be from France's TF1 and claiming that Rihanna died from a heart attack is...