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Unravelling the virality of death hoaxes—featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Lata Mangeshkar and now Shreyas Talpade
From fake rumours of Amitabh Bachchan dying in a car crash to Lata Mangeshkar tweeting to confirm s…
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Suspected bomb threat turned out to be hoax on Air India flight from Delhi-Vizag
A suspected bomb threat on the Air India flight AI-471 travelling from Delhi to Vishakhapatnam turn…
ANI
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GOP senator falls for sexually explicit Jimmy Carter death hoax
The fake letter announcing Jimmy Carter's death quoted the 39th president as calling his wife a "ba…
Bryan Metzger
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Delhi bomb threats: What we know so far
The news has been abuzz with reports of a bomb threat in several schools, hospitals and airports in…
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What happened to Denise Huskins' kidnapper Matthew Muller? The case was first considered a 'Gone Girl'-style hoax
Netflix's "American Nightmare" looks at the disappearance of Denise Huskins in 2015 after she was k…
Eammon Jacobs
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Lil Tay's new music release is making fans think her death hoax was a PR stunt
Commenters are gesturing at the closeness of the death hoax and the release of her track, "Sucker 4…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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I'm a Barbie girl who almost got tricked by a plastic-free hoax
A fake campaign by environmental activists said Barbie-maker Mattel would go plastic-free by 2030. …
Catherine Boudreau
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Carlee Russell smiles in her mugshot after facing charges over her kidnapping that turned out to be a hoax
Russell, a 25-year-old Alabama nursing student, had said she saw a toddler walking on the side of …
Chris Panella
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An apparently AI-generated hoax of an explosion at the Pentagon went viral online and markets briefly dipped
The S&P 500 briefly dipped by about a quarter of a percent moments after the fake news was shared b…
Rebecca Cohen
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How Lil Tay rocketed to fame at 9 years old, disappeared from social media, and became the speculation of a death hoax
Many on social media became convinced it was all a hoax. And a report from TMZ the following day ov…
Geoff Weiss
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Authorities want to 'aggressively' crack down on unruly airline passengers after a spate of bad behavior, including a hoax bomb threat sent via AirDrop
The FAA announced it has referred a further 22 cases of unruly passengers to the FBI, as incidents …
Pete Syme
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A viral story about homeless veterans getting kicked out of a New York hotel to make room for migrants was a hoax
Homeless men say they were offered money to pose as veterans. The hoax was picked up by numerous ou…
Rebecca Cohen
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I was visiting Brussels for the first time when the city's metro received a bomb threat. It turned out to be a hoax, but that didn't ease my anxiety.
Insider's reporter was on a solo trip to Brussels, Belgium, when the city's metro received a terror…
Mikhaila Friel
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I bust fake news for Snopes. Here's how I spot viral hoaxes, photoshops, 'deepfakes,' and misinformation.
With training and a careful eye, social media users can help stop the spread of false information —…
Madison Dapcevich
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As soon as rumors emerged that 15-year-old influencer Lil Tay had died, online sleuths mobilized. Now they're more convinced than ever her 'death post' was a cruel hoax.
Online sleuths were skeptical of reports that 15-year-old influencer Lil Tay had died, pointing to …
Charissa Cheong,Sirena Bergman
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An Irish newspaper published a hoax article calling false tan 'problematic' generated using ChatGPT by a fake journalist with a profile picture made on DALL-E
The Irish Times article was 80% written by GPT-4 and the hoaxer used a stereotypically "woke" pictu…
Pete Syme
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An internet hoax has dragged a popular China stationery company into the protests against the country's harsh COVID-19 restrictions
A fake document was shared online after demonstrators used blank sheets of paper to protest the Chi…
Rebecca Cohen
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How a hoax Reddit post claiming to be from a juror nearly disrupted a chaotic murder trial
A fake juror's post threatened to derail the trial where an attacker was found guilty of killing 6 …
Lindsay Dodgson
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Schools in at least 10 states warned parents of a TikTok trend threatening nationwide school shootings, but no credible threat has been identified
There is little evidence to suggest the purported trend ever existed. The DHS said it had no inform…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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A TikToker said he won an award for being the first to Google an obscure phrase. The elaborate hoax reached millions and sparked a copycat trend.
TikToker @legbootlegit gained millions of views with a series of videos claiming Google sent him an…