The phrase "a questionable story" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a narrative or account that raises doubts about its truthfulness or credibility.
Example: "The journalist reported on a questionable story that lacked sufficient evidence to support its claims."
Alternatives: "a dubious tale" or "an unreliable account".
Actively choosing what might need investigating feels like too much effort, and even then a quick Google search of a questionable news story on Facebook may turn up a link to a rehashed version of the same fake story.
There are a lot of questionable stories about the diminutive, sparkly and very sociable historian Andrew Roberts.
One of the questionable stories was a dramatic front-page appeal to Son of Sam to give himself up — to the Post, not to the police.
He argued that Thiel was preying on a small, independent media outlet to settle personal scores, rather than performing a benevolent service for the subjects of Gawker's more questionable stories, as Thiel contended in The New York Times.
Thiel pointed to recent cases of media outlets withdrawing questionable stories, like the Daily Beast's retraction last week of an article that critics said outed gay Olympic athletes.
Last week, Vice President Nicolás Maduro, who is running the government in Mr. Chávez's absence, referred to El País and another Spanish newspaper, ABC, that has printed questionable stories about Mr. Chávez's health as "this garbage press".
They say they have had to thoroughly investigate the cases, some of which are complicated by inconsistencies, false documents and questionable stories, to ensure that the children were not bought or stolen from impoverished rural women.
To put it less diplomatically, news organizations might not view Google or the other big Internet platforms as allies given their dominance of the online ad business and the role they play in spreading sensationalistic or questionable stories, not to mention misinformation and hoaxes.
Jon Stewart had a montage of news reports naming states and islands whose size is supposedly the same as that of the slick — New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Delaware and Rhode Islandd combined," and Puerto Rico, an entry that inspired Stewart to embark on a questionable "West Side Story" homage.
While controversy surrounded the allegations since they were made by a former SAE pledge who later participating in hazing others and was considered by some to be a questionable source, the story does not bode well for the university.
