Obviously, The Independent's own hoax articles were by far the best – and can be found along with live updates from the US here.
Initially, it described the sort of hoax articles published by shady content farms that cynically exploited readers' existing biases to get clicks from bald-faced lies about Hillary Clinton storing fraudulent ballots in warehouses.
The Rev Al Sharpton, the most influential black leader in New York, said he continued to believe that her story was not a hoax.See article: Al Sharpton on the defensiveThe first direct charter flight for two years left Miami for Cuba.Peace hopes rose in Colombia.
Re "Mailing Lethal Substances Is a Rare Crime, Tough to Solve When Not a Hoax" (news article, Oct. 17): One of the difficulties that the Postal Service has in screening for suspicious mail is the sheer volume of deliveries -- some 680 million items per day.
In 2014, New York Magazine published "The Sandy Hook Hoax", an article detailing the incredible levels of abuse the families of Sandy Hook victims received from conspiracy theorists who believed their children never even existed – that the shooting was concocted as a way of getting increased gun control on the agenda.
The Los Angeles Times issued a prominent correction on the story, saying: "Though the UN was examining policy changes, that statement was based on a news release that was a hoax … The article also quotes Kevin Campo, who is identified in the fake news release as a spokesman for the UN agency.
Mr Wise's opponents noted not only his relatively sparse publishing record but, perhaps more pertinently, a letter from him to the New York Review of Books rebuking Steven Weinberg, a physics Nobelist, for his enthusiastic praise of the Sokal hoax (in an article which had irked many other moderate science-studies scholars).
It's mildly funny and very obviously a hoax, but this article on humour site BBspot didn't stop many a Twitter user from thinking it is real.
The third result is the article "The Holocaust Hoax; IT NEVER HAPPENED".
The Times of Israel then published its article explaining the hoax and apologising.
