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.
Highly dubious websites posted false and distasteful articles that prompted unwarranted concern among the reality TV star's many fans.
Hairstyles in the '60s and '70s could be pretty big ... but, seriously, THIS big?
The former NFL star was convicted of running a dog fighting ring in 2007.
A Starbucks in Glenpool, Oklahoma, become the center of controversy in late 2019.
The alleged remarks come from the same video that brought us a story about a scary fellow in Biden's youth known as "CornPop."