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Is Daily Mirror Pretending It wasn’t Hoaxed by Virgin Atlantic Glass-Bottomed Plane April Fools Prank?

Was the UK Daily Mirror hoaxed by an April Fools' joke? In an April 1 story, the Mirror reported on...

Outlets including Gizmodo UK, Venture Beat, and the Washington Times admitted being duped by an April Fools' hoax within 24...

Several news outlets were hoaxed by a story claiming that France would start using drones to deliver newspapers. News outlets...

San Jose, California daily newspaper The Mercury News fessed up this week to being hoaxed by a joke tweet claiming...

A slew of media outlets -- from NBC's Nightly News to ABC's Good Morning America -- were hoaxed by a fake...

The Washington Post's Delia Lloyd thought full-figured Swedish mannequins were a hoax. But the mannequins are real, and the Washington...

The Times of London admitted in its March 18 edition that its "exclusive" story that there was going to be...

Fox News has owned up and disclosed to readers that it included bad information in a Jan. 21 post about...

Was the UK Daily Mail hoaxed by a fake Twitter account purporting to be Bashid Mclean, the New York man...