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Robert Plant didn’t tear up Richard Branson’s offer to get Led Zeppelin back together

UK news service WENN retracted and apologized for its November 2014 claim that Robert Plant tore up a contract from...

Fox 5 San Diego wrongly suggested that Barack Obama had been a sexual assault suspect. The television station, KSWB, showed...

Why did The Toronto Star publish an investigation questioning the HPV vaccine Gardasil, public editor Kathy English asked in her...

NBC News suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. NBC News president Deborah Turness announced his suspension tonight. In...

Of course, the headline for this story is a riff on Buzzfeed's typical story format. But despite the winning entertainment...

The Daily Beast wrongly reported today that Mitt Romney was going to announce his candidacy for president. In fact, the...

ESPN host Chris Fowler was duped by a fake website, MediaMass, because he failed to check his facts. Fowler reported...

Do state-funded Russian news outlet Russia Today and terrorist groups Boko Haram and ISIS belong in the same category? The...

MSNBC's Chris Hayes aired a photo from France in his coverage of the bombing of a Colorado Springs NAACP office....