Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

ISIS didn’t ban pigeon breeding because of bird genitals

Terrorist group ISIS did not ban pigeon breeding, the rumor-debunking website Snopes reported. The UK Mail started the false claim...

Fake shark photo alert! An Australian teenager did NOT get a great selfie with a shark while surfing. The teenager, Alex...

Francois Bugingo is officially out of the Federation of Professional Journalists in Quebec. Bugingo voluntarily sent in his membership card...

Journalist John Bohannon admitted last week that he intentionally duped the media with a study saying chocolate helped weight loss....

Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor and former communications director for UK prime minister David Cameron, was...

Canadian journalist Francois Bugingo admitted last night that he fabricated some of his reporting. He confessed in a Facebook post...

Science journal announced today that it is retracting the controversial same-sex marriage study by Michael LaCour and Donald Green. LaCour...

Francois Bugingo, the journalist in Canada accused of widespread fabrication including that of his war reporting, quit 98.5 FM Radio...

Three Canadian news outlets ended their relationship with Francois Bugingo after accusations of fabrication against the journalist. Le Journal de...