hoax
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After roughly two days of investigation, police informed the public the entire panic was driven by a hoax.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"To cheat, trick, deceive, delude with false pretences; to impose upon, take in, hoax."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Despite developing the machine with scientists, Ernetti’s claims of what he saw — including Christ’s crucifixion — quickly became sensationalized fodder, with some believing in Ernetti’s discovery and others dismissing it as a hoax.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Burnham is not the first prominent British politician to fall victim to this type of hoax.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
“I thought it was a hoax at first.”
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
Fang was arrested and charged with one federal count of false information and hoaxes, according to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The FBI said in April that Americans lost over $893 million last year to AI-enabled hoaxes, including voice cloning scams.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Never mind that the commission doesn’t need the policy to confront legitimate offenses; it has a rule banning broadcast hoaxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
"You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again," he said.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
MACUSA’s Department of No-Maj Misinformation has put in extensive work to convince Muggles that sightings of Hodags have been hoaxes.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
In May 2010, Lloyd thought he was being hoaxed when an agent finally agreed to work with him.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
Even odder: Te’o himself had been hoaxed, because he’d never met the person he thought he was dating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
In 1996 Diana was hoaxed by the broadcaster Victor-Lewis-Smith posing as Stephen Hawking.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2020
Either TMZ got hoaxed or ‘Empire’ star Jussie Smollett straight up fabricated details, but there is no way the hate crime described in the TMZ story occurred as described.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 29, 2019
We have been hoaxed along by comparable substitutes for technology right up to the present.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The author’s precise style is crisp as ever but with a wider emotional reach, exploring teenage friendship, imagination, hoaxing, propriety and rebellion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
They devised a political education program, where many folks contemplated the use of hoaxing as a mechanism for social protest.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2020
“The hoaxing charge is problematic for Callimachi and the Times,” Wemple wrote.
From Fox News ● Sep. 29, 2020
He has sued other hoaxers for invasion of privacy, and successfully petitioned a Florida university to fire a professor, James Tracy, for hoaxing.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2017
I strained my eyes in the quarter indicated, without, however, making any discoveries, and with a strong disposition to think the Old Boy was hoaxing me.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
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