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.
Sharing a first name is not the same as sharing an identity.
Facebook hasn't limited your feed to only a certain number of people, and sharing a post saying otherwise won't make any difference.
A quote attributed to the Nazi dictator about the start of World War III is a hoax perpetuated by people not inclined to check for themselves.
The COVID-19 pandemic was blamed for removing coins from circulation, as well as slowing production by the U.S. Mint.
Not all women with short, dark hair are Ghislaine Maxwell.