Hoaxes
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Articles:
- Strange but true: This is the golden age of hoaxes from US News Aug. 26, 2002
- Extra! Extra! Life on moon! The New York Sun made up a scoop-and remade journalism from US News Aug. 26, 2002
- Kidding about the captain. He rarely buried gold. Still, we look from US News Aug. 26, 2002
- Hooked on a crooked book. An antisemitic fraud born a century ago wins new converts from US News Aug. 26, 2002
- A case of past imperfect. An award-winning Holocaust memoir was not what it seemed from US News Aug. 26, 2002
- 100 percent false. HItler's unauthorized autobiography from US News Aug. 26, 2002
- Crop Circles from US News Aug. 26, 2002
- Newsweek Altered Photo from NYT. Nov. 26, 1997
- Clinton-Castro Fake Photo from AP, Sept. 8, 2000 "U.S.
- Tabloid, Giffords Libel Trial from AP, Sept. 16, 2000
- Aretha Franklin sues tabloid over report of drinking problem from AP, Feb. 6, 2002
- Real Woman Plays Artificial 'Simone' from AP, Aug 22, 2002
- Legends of the Fall: Sept. 11 Myths Abound from Washington Post, January 4, 2002
- Ex-Astronaut Aldrin Accused of Punching Man from Reuters, Sept. 10, 2002
- The Camera Never Lies, but the Software Can from New York Times, March 11, 2004
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- Tabloids:
- Sokal hoax Early in the Spring of 1996, Social Text published an essay suggesting a link in quantum mechanics and post-modernism by Professor Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York University. On the day of publication Sokal announced in Lingua Franca that the article had in fact been a hoax.
- 2003 Blackout Satellite Photo Hoax from Snopes