Fake News
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Oct. 22, 2025
The claim appeared on a Facebook page that made conflicting claims about Irwin's stance on LGBTQ ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 14, 2016
A nongovernmental search-and-rescue organization on the ground in Syria has drawn a lot of atten ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 16, 2019
An impostor newspaper designed to resemble the Washington Post was distributed around downtown W ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 28, 2018
A British defense contractor linked to embattled psychographics firm Cambridge Analytica was hir ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 7, 2018
California Democrat Adam Schiff is the latest target of the disinformation campaign.
Written by: Megan Alpert
Feb. 7, 2018
Editors at Ecuadoran media outlets told Snopes how fake news and disinformation affected two rec ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 24, 2018
The Holy Father compared those who create and spread misinformation to the "crafty" serpent in t ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 17, 2018
The long-awaited reveal was a list of stories about Trump that were corrected or retracted by th ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 28, 2017
The social media giant announced a new measure for penalizing web sites that post fake news.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 20, 2017
A growing number of "prank" web sites such as Channel23News.com allow users to create their own ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 6, 2017
The FBI reportedly sent investigators to Doha, but the crisis between the Gulf states has been b ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 24, 2017
Experts caution that a Kremlin-backed disinformation campaign thought to have been carried out d ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski Bethania Palma
April 18, 2017
How to walk the line between awareness and conspiracy theory.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 19, 2017
Cameron Harris reportedly made thousands of dollars by posting fabricated stories on his web sit ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 11, 2017
The end of President-elect Donald Trump's pre-inaugural press conference included heated rhetori ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 6, 2016
In an interview, Pope Francis decried the spread of false information as sinful — but he didn't ...
Written by: snopes
Nov. 29, 2016
Facebook announced a plan to address the circulation of false information via social media with ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 29, 2016
A story that the President is banning all fake news came from — you guessed it — a fake news site.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 1, 2016
Fabricated news sometimes hews close enough to real news that the two overlap, but that doesn't ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
March 1, 2016
The cloned page caused enough widespread consternation that the real New York Times issued a sta ...
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