hoax
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There was also confusion in the middle of the Covid pandemic when a fake domestic league in Nauru was announced, with the hoax being very detailed down to team names and registered players.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
So maybe it’s all part of the same hoax.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
When Carroll reported the incident in a book, Trump called it “a hoax and a lie,” prompting her to file a second claim for defamation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
"Some people think plastic recycling is a hoax -- that it doesn't work; it's too challenging," Lynch shares.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
The War of the Worlds broadcast wasn’t the first time—or the last—that a media hoax tricked people.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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
But he entertained audiences in many ways, with everything from blatant hoaxes to Shakespearean theater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
The binder, offered by Kate Mitas, Bookseller for $5,000, contains 74 pieces of correspondence — epistolary catfishing at its finest and one of the great undiscovered literary hoaxes of the 20th century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
When asked about the slip, Hegseth accused Goldberg of "peddling hoaxes."
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
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
Another self‑publicising sister first concocted a stunt involving a forged letter from the King of the Zulus and then hoaxed newspapers with a claim that assassins had tried to stab her.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013
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
Sadly, we may never know, because the field of humanities hoaxing appears to suffer from several of the flaws it aims to expose.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2018
Has not some wag been hoaxing the editor?
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
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