CBS Las Vegas affiliate KLAS falls for fake news from fake account, reports that Gerard Gallant’s been named New Jersey Devils head coach
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Skip Bayless cites fake report from Twitter troll SportsTalkBarry on Chris Paul mocking James Harden “for having manboobs”
"There was the one report yesterday that this got so bad in practice going back two years ago that Chris Paul was making fun of Harden's manboobs in practice to the point where he broke down in tears and had to leave a couple of practices."
Fake reporter tweeted that Colgate’s Jordan Burns missed a flight and took an Uber, fooled CBS and Burns’ mom
A fake reporter account that's been around since December got almost 10,000 likes for a false report of a Colgate player missing a flight, a report subsequently picked up by some CBS local sites. That report even fooled the player's mom.
20-year-old Macedonian Darko Grncarov fooled Martina Navratilova, Twitter, and the BBC into thinking he was a rising tennis star
Grncarov claimed to be a tennis star on the rise, one who'd recovered from a six-month coma and was set for big tournaments. But it doesn't look like that was true.
After reducing news in feeds, Facebook plans to emphasize “high quality” news with user survey. What does that mean for sports?
Will Facebook's surveys about "trusted" news outlets affect the visibility of those outlets' sports coverage? What about sports-only outlets?
Someone made faux Washington Post, ESPN, B/R, SI sites to spread fake news about Redskins name change
Someone, for some reason, wants you to think Washington changed its name to the Redhawks.
Adarn Schefter fooled almost everybody with this Eli Manning tweet
Unverified Twitter strikes again.
Peter King and Don Van Natta Jr. were fooled by fake Adam Schefter account tweeting Kaepernick signing
King and Van Natta Jr. both retweeted the fake tweet, then deleted their retweets and apologized.
Ranking the major sports according to the “fake news” they produce
Which sports peddle ginned-up crap that keeps people talking?
No, James Harrison didn’t make that viral wheelchair comment
ESPN’s Around The Horn cites fake Woj tweet with “of course it’s legitimate”
Richard Sherman is living in his own world of alternative facts
Richard Sherman is denying a confrontation with a local media member that everyone else says happened.
ESPN’s Kevin Ota: sports fans are too smart to be fooled by fake Facebook posts
Facebook as a publishing platform is becoming increasingly important for numerous journalistic organizations, including ESPN, but it’s also...
