Hoaxes and Media Hoax - iMediaEthics News Stories

Libyan PM Ali Zidan Doesn’t Have Twitter, News Outlets Fell for Fake Tweets

Several news outlets, including the Daily Mail, Reuters and the Guardian, were hoaxed by a fake Twitter account purporting to...

Fox News was hoaxed by a satire story claiming President Barack Obama was going to "pay out his own pocket...

Nigerian news outlet Premium Times wrongly reported that retired military official Ajibola Kunle Togun died. Togun is a former "security...

Australian radio station 2 Day FM, which in December aired a prank phone call with a hospital treating Kate Middleton,...

ESPN Radio 104.5 in Albany, N.Y. was hoaxed by a man posing as former New York Yankees baseball player Shane...

China government-run Xinhua News was hoaxed by a satirical story claiming Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos accidentally bought the Washington Post....

Back in May, a Denver TV news station aired a fake story after being hoaxed by a source, Media Bistro's...

The Wall Street Journal was hoaxed by a fake Twitter account for author Joan Didion, Gawker reported. The Journal's July...

USA Today was apparently hoaxed by a source giving a fake name, "Howie Felterbush," for a story about the verdict...