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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,has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, no can edit the page, has led to concerns such as the quality of writing ...
Hannibal Fogg Creation of an article with faked references, as well as methodical insertion of Hannibal Fogg name in other Wikipedia articles by BarnardKnox (talk · contribs) (there is a fake Hannibal Fogg Society online, registered to Jason Webster and Tahir Shah according to Whois) 1½ months August 27, 2009 October 12, 2009
Name Domain Status Notes Sources American News americannews.com Defunct Published a false story claiming actor Denzel Washington endorsed Donald Trump for U.S. president. The fictional headline led to thousands of people sharing it on Facebook, a prominent example of fake news spreading on the social network prior to the 2016 presidential election.
Nik Cohn's New York magazine article, "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which was the source material for the movie Saturday Night Fever, and which Cohn admitted decades later had been fiction, not reportage. David Manning, a fictitious film critic created by Sony in order to praise Columbia Pictures films for advertising purposes.
Published a false claim with a Photoshopped image as evidence. Its Facebook page was hijacked by a businessman based in North Macedonia in 2019. The original owner had worked with Liberty Writers News and USApoliticstoday.com, one of the original sites in the network of Macedonian fake news sites.
Even though many satirical sources are labeled as such with disclaimers, there is a long history of satirical content being falsely perceived as true. [1] According to Snopes, this misunderstanding can be due to a variety of reasons:
If you can't tell from the endless list of cat pictures in this article, individual cats are usua lly not notable enough for a Wikipedia article. A new sex position that you and your boys theory-crafted one night. Including whatever 54 would mean. A list of Nigerian Princes. Times Scooby-Doo has defied the laws of reality. A list of celebrity ...
Wikipedia:Verifiable but not false; Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth; Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check; Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification; Note: This page was previously a noticeboard for accuracy disputes. See the archive for previous disputes, and also the talk page archives for further disputes.