Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Daily Mail Apologizes for Amanda Knox Story with Wrong Verdict

The Daily Mail has announced an "enquiry" into its publication of an incorrect news story reporting (wrongly) that the young...

The Daily Mail was busted for publishing an inaccurate pre-emptive story on the verdict in the Amanda Knox appeal trial,...

Was the BBC hoaxed by an interviewee? Despite denials from both the BBC and group The Yes Men that a man...

The UK's ITV News was duped into airing fake images on a Sept. 26 episode of its new show Exposure...

Fox was busted earlier this month for broadcasting fake news headlines about Jay Cutler. The Chicago Tribune had reported Sept....

Mexican newspaper La Jornada has defended itself against charges of photo fakery for its photo of a political meeting, the...

CBS News unpublished all of its "web series" posts from "What's Trending" because "What's Trending" tweeted fake news that Steve...

Last week, iMediaEthics wrote about the two Hong Kong journalists who resigned after the station, Asia Television Ltd, aired a fake...

Even though a Hong Kong TV news station apologized for its fake report that a former Chinese president died, two...