Hoax

After reports of white vans being used to kidnap women and children for sex and organ trafficking spread on Facebook, the company is flagging the statements as false information.

The unknown culprit, reportedly speaking in an American accent, cited links to the Russian government and threatened to set off anti-submarine weapons and shoot down planes.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry deleted a bogus Instagram "privacy policy change" after being mocked as an out-of-touch Baby Boomer and Trump administration figure.

Bernie Sanders said the president believes climate change is a hoax before calling him the name. The reactions on his feed went both ways — along party lines, of course.

IRL streamer Ice Poseidon has been evicted from several homes in the L.A. area because of his followers' antics.

George Conway doubted whether Russians were "completely confused by Trump's brainless incoherence."

The 23-year-old faces five years in prison over the hoax bomb threat.

The "new" scam is about "bypassing" or "resetting" Facebook in order to see more friends in your newsfeed.

Trump said Kavanaugh was "a man that did nothing wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats."

She shared the claim on Facebook, but has since deleted the post.

The president hit out at the probe into Russian election meddling a week after meeting Putin.

A mixture of a somewhat-plausible medical condition and some tragic drama make the story of Edward Mordrake irresistible. But he really should have invested in a hoodie.

The photo was posted on the YouTube channel "UFOmania – The Truth Is Out There," and got more than 2 million clicks with the warning: "The creature's shape is striking."

The threats were made from somewhere in the U.S. against schools across the U.K.

The case drew comparisons to "Gone Girl" after police falsely accused a couple of inventing a kidnapping. The reality was a nightmare.

A small fire at Trump Tower on Monday exploded into a giant fake news hoax on conspiracy websites.

The picture has left a lot of people excited.

From Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen's satirical Trump memoir to Ron Chernow's next biography.

He also calls out young people for lacking critical thinking skills and being "dumbed down by TV, commercials, sports and so forth."

Russia is investigating an airstrike they think may have killed Baghdadi in Raqqa, but observers offer different analysis of Moscow's moves.

University of California, Berkeley, professor emeritus Richard Muller receives money from Trump megadonor Robert Mercer.

48 passengers were aboard the turbo-prop plane in New South Wales.

Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez tells TV's 'Dr. Phil' that she and the former NFL star 'were going up a ladder to a positive direction.'

Nedeljnik magazine says it may have been the victim of a hoax.

More than 150 countries will commit to the pact, which calls for a rapid end to the rise of greenhouse gas emissions.

"We don't know if it's a hoax but there's no nexus to the murders," LAPD Captain Andrew Neiman said.

The closures affected 640,000 students in the nation's second-largest school district.

After NASA said it found evidence of flowing water on present-day Mars, Rush Limbaugh and others spoke up with conspiracy theories.

A group of people sees the New Horizons as just the latest phony space mission.

Richard Branson's #BransonToBranson April Fools' Day hoax may have pushed the Branson, Missouri, mayor out of office.