Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Fake Neanderthal Clone Baby Story Still Out There? When will Media Admit Error

Fox News has owned up and disclosed to readers that it included bad information in a Jan. 21 post about...

Was the UK Daily Mail hoaxed by a fake Twitter account purporting to be Bashid Mclean, the New York man...

Book publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it will yank Jonah Lehrer's 2010 book How We Decide from the shelves, Michael...

As iMediaEthics wrote this past weekend, Falkland Islands' only newspaper, the weekly Penguin News, published a fake interview purporting to...

The Knight Foundation paid $20,000 for Jonah Lehrer to speak about his plagiarism and fabrication scandal earlier this week. As...

iMediaEthics wrote earlier today about the Washington Post's correction after being duped by a satire story claiming Sarah Palin would...

A few days after The New Republic tweeted and then deleted a fake photo of President Obama skeet shooting, the...

KFAI's Andy Driscoll posted on his Facebook page Jan. 22 a fake photo that showed what appeared to be three...

Harper's Magazine has owned up to being tricked by a satire story by releasing corrections online, in print, and on...