A hoax (plural: hoaxes) is a widely publicised falsehood created to deceive its audience with false and often astonishing information, with the either...

Look up hoax in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hoax is deliberate false information. Hoax may also refer to: "The Hoax", (Italian : Una burla riuscita)...

all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations. The most notable...

arrest, Papini signed a plea deal admitting that she had orchestrated the hoax. She pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of making false...

The Hoax is a 2006 American comedy-drama film starring Richard Gere, directed by Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallström. The screenplay by William Wheeler is...

The "Momo Challenge" is a hoax and an internet urban legend that was rumoured to spread through social media and other outlets. It was reported that children...

A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain e-mail that tells the...

The Sokal affair, also known as the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University...

A death hoax is a deliberate report of someone's death that is later revealed to be untrue. In some cases, it might be because the person has intentionally...

In February 2012, a group of British students created a hoax by editing the English Wikipedia article about the electric toaster, inserting the false claim...

However the evidence is a combination of folklore, misidentification and hoax, and the creature is not a living animal. Folklorists trace the phenomenon...

The following is a list of hoaxes: These types of hoaxes are semi-comical or private "sting operations" intended to expose people. They usually encourage...

The Balloon Boy hoax occurred on October 15, 2009, when a homemade helium-filled gas balloon shaped to resemble a silver flying saucer was released into...

The diamond hoax of 1872 (sometimes called The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872) was a swindle in which a pair of prospectors sold a non-existent American diamond...

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The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835", was a series of six articles published in The Sun (a New York newspaper), beginning...

The Hamas baby beheading hoax refers to allegations, since refuted, that Hamas killed and beheaded dozens of babies and toddlers during the incursion it...

The Ern Malley hoax, also called the Ern Malley affair, is Australia's most famous literary hoax. Its name derives from Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley, a fictitious...

Saint Hoax is a pseudonymous Syrian artist, satirist and socio-political activist. They use various mediums to subversively depict political and popular...

The Zhemao hoaxes were over 200 interconnected Wikipedia articles about falsified aspects of medieval Russian history written from 2012 to 2022 by Zhemao...

The Hampstead hoax was a series of false allegations starting in 2014 that a Satan-worshipping paedophile ring of about "175 parents, teachers and religious...

The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing...

A Microsoft hoax may refer to: A technical support scam where a fraudulent caller impersonates Microsoft or Windows technical support The Microsoft acquisition...

A racial hoax occurs when a person (usually the purported victim) falsely claims that a crime was committed by member of a specific race. The crime may...

The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship...

On June 25, 2009, the American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 50. His personal physician...

The Pepsi needle hoax, also referred to as The Great Pepsi hoax, was a series of hoax claims where members of the public in the United States claimed to...

The Mars hoax was a hoax circulated by e-mail that began in 2003, that claimed that Mars would look as large as the full Moon to the naked eye on August...

conservative and right-wing politicians and media personalities promoted the hoax in response to several school districts enacting protections for transgender...

described as all falling "within the range of the sort of thing done in hoaxes" by Taner Edis, professor of physics at Truman State University. Although...