by Sydney Smith on Feb 24, 2018
German newspaper Bild duped by fake Russian trolls e-mails
Germany's widest-circulating newspaper, Bild, was hoaxed by fake e-mails claiming Russian trolls were working with the Social Democrat Party to mess...
Fake News
by Sydney Smith on Feb 11, 2018
Boston Herald suspends Ron Borges after Tom Brady salary hoax
The Boston Herald suspended sports columnist Ron Borges after he was duped by a hoaxer posing as New England Patriots...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 04, 2017
Fighting Fake News: 2 Canadian Public Editors Weigh In
In their recent columns, two Canadian public editors, Sylvia Stead of the Globe and Mail and Kathy English of the...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 14, 2017
Athens, Georgia News Site Duped by fake UGA former quarterback Greyson Lambert
The Athens Banner-Herald's web edition, OnlineAthens, was thrown for a loss by a fake interview with someone posing as former...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 09, 2017
Fake Quotes & Plagiarism in University of Wyoming Student Newspaper
The Branding Iron, the student newspaper for the University of Wyoming, published a story that featured fake quotes and plagiarized...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 01, 2017
Cambridge University not ‘forced’ to drop white authors, Telegraph corrects
Maybe the reporters and editors at The Daily Telegraph should go back to school because they just flunked interpretive reading. To...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 25, 2017
Fake Quotes in Campus Newspaper? Reporter Quits Before Hearing
Fake news is all the talk in mainstream and social media, but student publications have largely been left out of...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 12, 2017
People Mag Duped by Fake Las Vegas Victim Larry Parra?
People magazine unpublished a profile of a man who was allegedly killed in the Las Vegas shooting earlier this month....
by Sydney Smith on Oct 11, 2017
Dow Jones posts fake news about Google buying Apple
It would seem to be the blockbuster business story of the millennium. That is, two of the biggest companies and...