It might seem like we live in an Orwellian era of doublespeak but a new study from a University of Cambridge academic claims to have found the earliest example of fake news on some 3,000-year-old ...

Riddles uttered by a "trickster god" and enshrined in Ancient Babylonian text been described as possibly the "earliest ever example of fake news" by a researcher at the University of Cambridge in ...

It is just bad math. In a political and media environment that has seen an obsession with fake news define the zeitgeist, the jobs report is worth considering as the beginning and end of this ...

Hannity later apologized on his radio show, but it was a perfect example of how big names in news can spread fake stories. Here are five pieces of fake news that were read by millions: 1.

Or, at best, it’s a broad and breathless analysis of what anonymous social media accounts are getting up to, with no underlying fake news actually causing havoc. Perhaps the best example of how ...