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Fake News Website Posing as the BBC Taken Down

A hoax website imitating the BBC has published fake stories including one that alleges former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

Humor site Cracked.com compiled a list of "6 ways to get anyone to believe a clearly fake news story" in...

Motorboat and Yachting magazine reported in late July that a "£3 billion golden superyacht story" is a fake. The superyacht...

Media outlets ranging from the BBC and Los Angeles Times to PC World New Zealand and CNet were hoaxed by...

Utah newspaper the Deseret News has unpublished a story after it was revealed to be a hoax, according to SBC...

In late June, a story claiming Jewish people wouldn't be able to fly to Saudi Arabia on Delta Air Lines circulated...

iMediaEthics wrote last month when the lesbian blogger Amina Arraf of "Gay Girl in Damascus" was revealed as a hoax sock-puppet...

A video blog from a man named Marc Pax "claiming to be an American gay rights activist" turned out to be...

Add a fake dog stoning story to the (long) list of June's hoax stories that includes a Gay Girl in...