Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Philippines Newspaper Hoaxed by Fake Photo of Time Magazine, Says Sorry for Front-Page ‘Mistake’

The Philippines Daily Inquirer fessed up to publishing a hoax image on its April 20 front page. The fake photo...

Errors in breaking news stories -- especially ones involving mass injuries and deaths -- often come with the territory. iMediaEthics...

Is this an example of Iran's weird science? Fars News Agency, which has ties to the Iranian government, unpublished an...

Major Shawn Haney, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Marine Corps, has helped reveal the extent to which Philadelphia...

The Daily News, New York Post, Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice, Fox News and other news outlets published a photograph of Jay Leno and...

Several news outlets were hoaxed by a story claiming that France would start using drones to deliver newspapers. News outlets...

Madison Roberts, a reporter for the University of Alabama's student newspaper The Crimson White, was fired for making up "nearly 30"...

The Times of London admitted in its March 18 edition that its "exclusive" story that there was going to be...

News outlets, including Russian news agency Ria Novosti and later the Huffington Post and The Atlantic, were hoaxed by a...