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USA Today Corrects: Ammon Bundy Twitter Account a Fake

USA Today admitted to being hoaxed by a parody Twitter account for Ammon Bundy, who is part of the armed...

Below, see iMediaEthics' round-up of the top ten cases of fabrication, hoaxes and pranks on the media in 2015. ...

The Associated Press and CNN were duped by a person pretending to be a witness to the San Bernardino shootings....

A Toronto Star intern was pranked by a phony source for a story on car sex, "Looking for lover's lane, 2015?...

A French tourist named Natalie Amyot didn't get impregnated and post a YouTube video to track down the Australian father,...

Twitter isn't about to be bought for $31 billion, even though a fake Bloomberg News story circulating is saying so....

A Korean high school student nicknamed the "Genius Girl"--because she purportedly was accepted to several Ivy League colleges and offered a...

Terrorist group ISIS did not ban pigeon breeding, the rumor-debunking website Snopes reported. The UK Mail started the false claim...

Journalist John Bohannon admitted last week that he intentionally duped the media with a study saying chocolate helped weight loss....