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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

Emily, a mother in Scotland, says the trend reminds her of the "Momo Challenge", a notorious internet hoax and digital urban legend.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Burnham is not the first prominent British politician to fall victim to this type of hoax.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

He would later admit it was all a hoax, but not before the area became Hodag Country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

A hoax can be convincing if its source appears legitimate.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

Sightings that would have once been dismissed as hoaxes or covered by supermarket tabloids are now “respectfully discussed in the mainstream press and on the floor of Congress.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He posted online about his ordeal to raise the alarm about increasingly sophisticated online hoaxes.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

The unloved product was shoved into every available online space, cluttering up the digital landscape with junk and hoaxes while promising a far-off profit and a future of easy living.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

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

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 had no doubt that her terror at the original poltergeist activity was genuine, and he understood why an imaginative working-class woman might resort to supernatural hoaxing.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2020

This "greenness," as he called it, gave Archie immense delight, and he was never tired of mystifying and hoaxing the sweet-tempered little girl, who never resented his quizzings and practical jokes.

From Stories of Many Lands by Grace Greenwood