The waiter at a Texas steakhouse, who posted on social media saying he was stiffed by a “racist” customer for being a ‘terrorist,” made up the entire story, according to his former employer.
An academic journal published a hoax article about the bathroom habits of conservatives and liberals.
Based only on a tweet from the insanely partisan Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn star Stormy Daniels, NBC News (home of proven liars Joy Reid and Brian Williams) chose to light the world on fire with this overcooked nothingburger: “Daniels’ lawyer: Cohen got $500K from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.”
President Donald Trump criticized Sen. Dianne Feinstein for releasing the full transcript of congressional testimony from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.
Following the publication of their hoax paper that claimed male genitalia causes climate change, two professors are claiming that academia is overrun by “left-wing zealots.”
A pair of hoaxers convinced an academic journal to peer-review and publish their paper that the penis is a social construct causing climate change.
A “racist letter” left on a black student’s car at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College has now been revealed as a hoax. The letter was decried as a “hate crime” and sparked several days of mass protests organized by students to protest “racism on campus.”
Dozens of verified accounts on Twitter, including Rosie O’Donnell, were fooled by a viral fake video which claimed to show a young girl calling President Trump a “disgrace” during a photo-op.
The Indonesian military has filed a police report over a story originating at The Intercept, which claimed protests against the governor of Jakarta were actually part of a plot to overthrow President Joko Widodo.
An African American man in Tennessee was arrested for allegedly posing as a local white business owner and writing hoax letters pretending the businessman was a racist who was planning attacks on local black leaders.
Israeli authorities have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in connection with dozens of hoax bomb threats to Jewish community centers in the United States and around the world. ABC News reports that the unnamed suspect is a dual U.S.-Israel citizen.
Facebook is investigating a post that asked users to like, comment, and share a picture of a baby who the poster falsely claimed had cancer.
A Muslim University of Michigan student will not be charged with a felony after she faked a hate crime attack alleging that a white man threatened to light her hijab on fire.
Authorities in Frankfurt are investigating two people who claimed to have witnessed mass sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve saying the pair may have been making up the attacks.
A series of fake news hoaxes over social media, which falsely suggested authorities had set up immigration checkpoints aimed at deporting illegal aliens, caused panic this weekend across California.
A 14-year-old student allegedly hoaxed a Twitter threat from a social media account that she claimed was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
A man who claimed to have been the victim of a racist hate crime actually hoaxed the incident, writing “n*gger lovers” on his garage door.
Following a wave of hate crime hoaxes generally reported to make President-Elect Donald Trump supporters look deplorable, ABC News is now highlighting the hardships of the fake claims on Muslims.
Two college students who are President-Elect Donald Trump supporters have been cleared of accusations that they harassed other students after celebrating Trump’s victory with police finding no evidence to support the hate crime claims.
After a Muslim woman faked a hate crime where she alleged President-Elect Donald Trump supporters attacked her on a subway as New Yorkers looked on, Newsweek is now saying the hoax “highlights pressures” on Muslim teen girls.
A Muslim woman who drummed up mainstream media hysteria claiming she was attacked on a New York City subway by President-Elect Donald Trump supporters is now under arrest for fabricating the hate crime and filing a false police report.
A man looking to blame President-Elect Donald Trump supporters for a hate crime confessed to police that he fabricated an incident involving a racially-charged message, a fire, and a staged abduction.
A Villanova University student has asked police to drop their investigation into an incident in which she alleged she was attacked by white male President-Elect Donald Trump supporters.
A 58-year-old African-American man was arrested for allegedly spray-painting a “racist” message followed with President-Elect Donald Trump’s name the day after the New York business mogul’s stunning victory.
Since President-Elect Donald Trump was elected over Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton, the mainstream media have used alleged hate crime reports to drum up hysteria over issues like Islamophobia, homophobia, immigration, and race relations.
A couple with claimed ties to the New Black Panther Party has been charged for threatening a Birmingham elementary school with a hoax explosive device and threatening to kill police officers with the hope of starting a race war.
A North Park University student fabricated a story where she claimed that President-Elect Donald Trump supporters had sent her “hateful” notes and emails following the 2016 Election, local police confirmed.
Another student at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) has hoaxed a racist hate crime attack, local police have confirmed.
A woman who posted to her Facebook page that she had been sexually assaulted actually fabricated the story because she was “distraught over the recent election,” police confirmed.
Two Williams College students are now facing disciplinary action after hoaxing vandalism which appeared to be Ku Klux Klan (KKK) inspired days after the 2016 Election.
A black, female Bowling Green State University student allegedly fabricated a hate crime story about white, male President-Elect Donald Trump supporters attacking her on campus and is now being charged for faking a police report.
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana – A Muslim student who reported her hijab was pulled from her head and was robbed by President-Elect Donald Trump supporters will now face charges for the false claims.
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana – After a Muslim student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) claimed that her hijab and wallet were stolen by two President-Elect Donald Trump supporters, police announced the claim was fabricated.
Richard L. Campbell, the man accused of sucker-punching a 69-year-old protester outside a Donald Trump rally in Asheville, NC on Monday, is vigorously denying the charge — and has video that his attorney says proves his innocence. Campbell’s attorney, Ruth
A 22-year-old Connecticut woman posted a video to social media claiming she was accused of being transgender and was cursed out by a woman in a Walmart bathroom
A transgender woman who claimed to have been escorted improperly from a women’s restroom in North Carolina appears to have fabricated the story, according to a local TV report.
On Thursday, a Muslim woman in New York City claimed she was attacked by a white male who called her a terrorist and slashed her cheek with a knife before running away. On Friday, police announced the as-yet unnamed 20-year-old slashed her own cheek, giving herself a two-inch cut, and invented the hate crime story.
If someone told me they were from Australia and their name was “Sandy Beaches,” I might suspect that a prank was underway. Not so for The Mary Sue, the home of “geek and pop culture feminism” on the internet, who were convinced to run two hoax articles from an Australian man posing as a feminist woman.
The claims of the three black women that they were the victims of a white racial assault quickly became a cause célèbre for the Black Lives Matter movement, including high profile BLM activist DeRay McKesson. At the time, celebrities like rapper Wacka Flocka took to Twitter to cry out for justice for the students.
Questions are being raised about the latest cause célèbre for the Black Lives Matter movement; an alleged assault on three black women that are students at the University of Albany by a gang of white racists.
