In July, the website Snopes published a piece fact-checking a story posted on The Babylon Bee, a popular satirical news site with a conservative bent. Conservative columnist David French criticized ...

In our digital times as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be more damaging to people's reputations than direct criticism, according to new ...

The internet is filled with people who fail to recognize jokes and satirical claims. Sometimes such satirical posts are intentionally deceptive, intended as clickbait to lure gullible internet users.

The claim: A headline says 'misgendering the Nashville shooter dishonors the memory of his victims' A March 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a headline about the ...

Satire, parody and jokes packed with absurdity typically draw laughter, but around the world they are too often mistaken as real, prompting fact-checkers to debunk what they call a leading source of ...

Our domestic media, at least, had an excuse. While it takes a particularly keen immunity to irony to fall for an Onion article these days, The Daily Currant is a fake-news site of a different stripe: ...

Jordan has blocked the popular satirical news site AlHudood in a move denounced as censorship and an attack on freedom of expression. The Arabic language website, whose name translates as "the limits" ...