by Sydney Smith on May 08, 2014
Deadline Hollywood Hoaxed, ABC didn’t recast Harrison Wright in Scandal
Deadline Hollywood retracted a story after it published a hoax claiming the ABC show Scandal had re-cast the role of...
Fact Checking
by Sydney Smith on Apr 25, 2014
Daily Mail and Telegraph reporting on BBC sheep series is Baaaaad
The UK Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph both slammed the BBC earlier this month for renting rooms at the Dalmahoy...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 25, 2014
NY Daily News IDs WRONG boy in Conn. HS girl Stabbing story, Suspect still unnamed
Speeding to be first, The New York Daily News made a giant, damaging error today by wrongly IDing a teenager...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 07, 2014
$19 Million Home Renovations for Michael Schumacher?
Want to see how a rumor spreads around the world? Look no further than the case of Michael Schumacher, the...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 30, 2014
Pele NOT dead, CNN’s New Day Deletes Tweet
CNN apologized after wrongly reporting on one of its Twitter accounts that soccer star Pele died. CNN's New Day tweeted,...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 23, 2014
Did NJ Police Charge Dead Man with Heroin Possession?
The New Jersey Asbury Park Press wrongly reported that Jackson, New Jersey police charged a man with heroin possession AFTER...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 17, 2014
13 Stories with Faked sources, Interviews, Misquotes in U of Oregon student newspaper
University of Oregon-Eugene student newspaper The Daily Emerald revealed that one of its former reporters, Jessica Fisher, faked interviews and...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 12, 2014
Fake Chef Not Fact checked, Dupes 5 TV Morning Shows
Five TV morning shows were duped last year by a Queens, N.Y., comedian posing as a famous chef. The comedian, Nick...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 11, 2014
BuzzFeed’s 29 Embarrassing culture errors, One wrong
BuzzFeed recently posted an article entitled "29 Embarrassing Things You Should Absolutely Avoid While Traveling Abroad." Unfortunately, BuzzFeed got one...