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TMZ Hoaxed : Mistakes Playboy Photo For an Image of John F. Kennedy

Media hoaxes don’t appear to take a break for the holidays and, luckily, neither do hoax-breakers. Monday, celebrity news website...

When a story catches international attention, but turns out to be a hoax, should media update and clarify original stories...

Environmental hoax-ery is clearly at a high point this year. First, the Yes Men impersonated the United States Chamber of...

The Balloon Boy hoax this October captured so much coverage in so many media, it’s appropriate to wonder what it...

Apparently, October is National Hoax Month -- or so it would seem, given the proliferation of fraudulent stories that appeared...

In recent weeks, the media has reported on a number of hoaxes. First, Balloon Boy; then, a fake Chamber of Commerce...

Reuters (and subsequently The New York Times and Washington Post) fell for a hoax press release issued by the farcical...

Before the Colorado "Balloon Boy" hoax, there was the "Monster Pig" publicity stunt, which much like "Balloon Boy" involved the exploitation...

Will Sullivan's article in Poynter Online accidentally published a fake photo as part of a report about media outlets aggregating...