Hoax News

A copyright notice from Facebook is making its way around the Web. The legal blurb is a hoax, and for some reason every news outlet in the world really, really, really wants you to know this.

Bill Nye has strong beliefs in evolution that he does not mind airing. However, he was almost made extinct recently on Twitter.

Berlin - The mysterious "Forest Boy" in Germany has finally been identified after nine months of puzzlement. It turns out the story the man told when he arrived in Berlin in Sept. 2011 was a hoax.

Yesterday a call was made to the U.S. Coast Guard indicating that a yacht had exploded off the New Jersey ocean shore with 21 people aboard. Now it is believed the distress call was an orchestrated hoax.

President Obama is surprised by a baby's exploring hands. A nutritionist finds out how a McDonald's cheeseburger doesn't rot after a year. What kind of UFO hoax happened in Connecticut? These are the top stories on DigitalJournal.com

Winsted - Photo and video analyst for Mutual UFO Network Marc Dantonio created a "quadcopter" for an upcoming National Geographic special, "The Truth Behind UFOs." The purpose was to show how technology can fool anyone into thinking they are seeing a real UFO.

An old hoax has surfaced in Mozambique that claims 'flesh-eating bananas' have been imported into the country and placed on the market, spiking fear.

Montreal - The editor-in-chief of Le Devoir, a French daily newspaper in Montreal, claims the newspaper was hacked following a false report that stated Quebec Premier Jean Charest was rushed to the hospital and died after suffering a heart attack.

A recent study linking a person's use of a Web browser and IQ level has been found to be an elaborate hoax created by a disgruntled Web developer.

In 1729, Jonathan Swift proposed eating babies as the solution to famine in Ireland. Recently, a Japanese scientist has proposed an arguably even more unpalatable solution.