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Fact Check Fail: NTSB Says Intern Confirmed Bogus Asiana Pilot Names to KTVU

Bay Area Fox-affiliate KTVU wrongly identified four pilots on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from South Korea, which crashed on the...

Italian magazine Panorama was tricked by a satirical Andy Borowitz story claiming that Silvio Berlusconi was going to run for...

Montreal newspaper La Presse was hoaxed by a fake Twitter account for actor Bill Murray. In a June 23 post,...

The Daily Mirror was hoaxed by a fake story about a man lapsing into a coma after eating 413 biscuits, Arkansas...

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram was hoaxed by a satirical website into publishing a fake quote. The Texas newspaper had published...

A few news sites were hoaxed by a fake Craigslist advertisement but soon made corrections after learning the ad wasn't...

A Louisiana high school's student newspaper published a story that local restaurant was being shut down and possibly sued over...

The Drudge Report needs to start fact checking. The conservative news aggregation website was tricked by a satire story from...

The New York Police Department told iMediaEthics that it does not believe the recently found piece of a 9/11 airplane is...