Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Fake Photo, News Story Claiming Rihanna Died Circulates, French TV News Denies Reporting Hoax

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

News outlets published a "test story" from the Associated Press by accident, and are now unpublishing the fake sports story. ...

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

Reuters' blogging website was hacked again and a fake death story was posted, Agence France-Presse reported. The fake story claimed...

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

Jonah Lehrer resigned from the New Yorker yesterday after being busted for fake Bob Dylan quotes in his book Imagine,...

The Connecticut SPJ announced the results of an "independent review" into articles by fired New Canaan News reporter Paresh Jha....

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

A Haredi news site pasted in gray boxes to New York local news coverage published on its website, blogger Shmarya...