Junk news sites reported that a "Puerto Rico mayor" was arrested on fraud charges and misleadingly used images of San Juan mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who has not been charged with a crime.
Spurious blogs and "alternative health" purveyors tried to misrepresent the country's already-voluntary vaccination program.
A shadowy Watergate-era figure who claims he had personal access to Richard Nixon says the president showed him a letter confirming the existence of extraterrestrials.
Articles criticizing the Common Core curriculum draw causal connections where none exist.
A recent fake news item sought to distort the results of an inquiry into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia.
President Obama hasn't announced he's seeking an international position he likely couldn't obtain in any case.
According to the First Lady's spokesperson, widely shared reports that she demanded a White House exorcism are "not true in any way."
A scurrilous fake news site took a controversial court case and added a fabricated element to it in order to produce clickbait.
For once, a notorious purveyor of fake news gets some details right, but gets the overall story wrong.
No evidence validates claims of foul play in a train crash involving Republican members of Congress.
Some people actually believe in the medical misinformation they peddle; others shamelessly risk the public health by publishing erroneous medical info just for clicks and kicks.
A well-known purveyor of fake news spread the fabricated claim that President Trump called out George Soros at the 2018 World Economic Forum.
Drugging up and performing sex acts on dangerous reptiles is probably not an advisable means for getting one's kicks.
The Environmental Protection Agency will be allowing for potential new uses of asbestos, while limiting the scope of studies that assess its risk.
Aaron Hernandez's conviction could be vacated under the obscure legal doctrine of abatement ab initio, but that won't necessarily entitle his family to millions of dollars.
Rumors of the rapper's demise spread in December 2019 after posts on "prank" news websites.
The tradition of using multiple pens to sign important legislation, and then giving those pens to the people involved, has been practiced by politicians for decades.