The phrase "false article" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing misinformation, fake news, or incorrect publications.
Example: "The journalist was criticized for publishing a false article that misrepresented the facts."
Alternatives: "fake article" or "misleading article".
At one point, prosecutors asked whether Mr. Blagojevich had planted a false article in a local newspaper regarding whom he would choose for a United States Senate seat.
Mina smashed that false article of faith with her dead-grim Garnethill trilogy, featuring a hard-bitten heroine who fights the social conditions that lead to the abuse of women, children and the elderly in a Glasgow slum.
Bild and a few more gullible media websites ran the story, but then it quickly transpired it was a classic internet hoax: unknown individuals had managed to hack into the club's website and post the false article.
It spells out exactly what it's hoping to avoid with these changes: Anything like the incident last year, where Google's top result in Search for "Did the Holocaust happen?" was a false article from neo-Nazi website Stormfront.
Of course it's important to keep the press informed and to correct false articles.
It often took weeks to refute false articles with convincing evidence.
At the Texas event where he criticised Amazon, Trump also referred to "purposely negative and horrible and false articles" about him.
Earlier this year, Facebook fired the human team that moderated its "trending news" section over accusations of bias, and Zuckerberg called it a "crazy idea" that misleading and false articles could sway voters.
President Trump has unsuccessfully pursued many defamation lawsuits over the years, leading him to vow during the 2016 campaign to "open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money".
The Republican candidate for President, for whom Thiel plans to serve as a California delegate, has said, "I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money" — meaning, he'll do what he can to overturn the Sullivan standard.
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest circulation daily, already apologized to readers for what it admitted were a collection of false articles.
