Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

MSNBC duped: Aired interview with fake NY Giants Larry Donnell RE Delta 1086 incident

MSNBC was duped by a prankster posing as New York Giants tight end Larry Donnell when reporting on Delta 1086,...

In the time since Mother Jones first questioned Fox News' Bill O'Reilly's accounting of his reporting history, more claims have...

Several news outlets claimed Israel intentionally flooded the Gaza Strip. The AFP, Al Jazeera and the Daily Mail were among...

Bill O'Reilly is still hitting back at Mother Jones for questioning his war reporting history while he worked for CBS...

Northwestern University and former professor David Protess are being sued and accused of acting unethically in the famed Medill Innocence...

Indian actor Aamir Khan has accused Pakistani news sites of faking an interview, the India Times reported. A major Bollywood...

Brian Williams will not be on NBC News for "the next several days" because of the controversy surrounding his false...

Of course, the headline for this story is a riff on Buzzfeed's typical story format. But despite the winning entertainment...

Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun is starting a public editor position to handle reader complaints and reactions, the paper announced...