Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

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The Huffington Post has admitted they were fooled by a fake video. Huff Post editors wrote on Feb 19, 2009:...

The most recent extreme scary animal photos published by bloggers and mainstream media was almost instantly identified as a hoax...

France 2 is again accused of fakery in their coverage of the conflict in the Gaza Strip. In this latest...

A France 2 report showed old footage - from 2005, of the dead bodies of children killed by the accidental explosion of a...

Assumptions about common knowledge can be very dangerous. As the saying goes, a journalist even needs to check "if his mother loves him."...

Photoshopping two images together and presenting the results as a news photograph is a clear breach of journalistic ethics. It...

"I'll never let go. I promise. I'll never let go." Recognize these lines? If you were around in the late...

2008 was the year journalists' sticky fingers as well as imaginations ran wild, as evidenced by Montreal author Craig Silverman's...

Individual journalists weren’t the only ones flubbing reports in 2008. Regret The Error reports “epic organizational failure” was the trend...