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Our First Time, an early popularized Internet hoax involving two purported 18-year-olds who claimed they would live broadcast themselves losing their virginity. Our Race Will Rule Undisputed Over The World, a fake document alleging Jewish superiority over Gentiles by a non-existent rabbi named Emmanuel Rabinovich.
On 8 January 1992, Headline News almost became the victim of a death hoax. A man phoned HLN claiming to be President George H. W. Bush's physician, alleging that Bush had died following an incident in Tokyo where he vomited and lost consciousness; however, before anchorman Don Harrison was about to report the news, executive producer Roger Bahre, who was off-camera, immediately yelled "No!
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This category includes notable proven hoaxes and incidents determined to be hoaxes by reliable sources. An article's inclusion on this list is not intended to disparage the authenticity of the report, but to denote that it is in general considered, or evidenced, as having been created as a hoax, or was known to be false (or a joke) as created.
John Seigenthaler, an American journalist, was the subject of a defamatory Wikipedia hoax article in May 2005. The hoax raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content. Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, the site has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, under which anyone can edit most articles, has led to concerns ...
Maria Monk – 1836 account of large-scale sexual abuse of Catholic nuns and infanticide at the hands of male clergy in Montreal, Lower Canada, widely believed to be a hoax capitalizing on the anti-Catholic sentiments of the time [8] Monita Secreta – alleged Jesuit instructions to use unethical methods to increase the order's wealth and ...
The Greatest Hoaxes of All Time Archived 24 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine – slideshow by Life magazine "What's All This Hoax Stuff, Anyhow?" (Bob Pease article on Electronic Design website) Archived 11 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine; Chloe and Keith's Wedding hoax – link to video and commentary at USA Today
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