No End to the End-of-the-World Nonsense

Staff / Truthdig Jan 5, 2012 When it comes to the apocalypse, there's no such thing as a partial success. It's like being pregnant. So here are our choices: Either the world is going to end this year, as New Agey types believe by interpreting the ancient Mayan calendar through the lens of their "hippie consciousness-expanding nonsense," like this helpful clip puts it, or it's not. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Gay Girl in Damascus’? Not So Much

Staff / Truthdig Jun 13, 2011 In a curious case of scrambled online identities, a 40-year-old American man has been outed as the writer of an attention-grabbing blog by the name of A Gay Girl in Damascus, which was supposedly written by a Syrian-American lesbian. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pakistan Papers Publish Faux WikiLeaks

Staff / Truthdig Dec 11, 2010 An already fraught relationship between India and Pakistan got a bit more taut after a lapse of journalistic responsibility led several leading Pakistani papers to publish fabricated WikiLeaks cables that more resembled anti-Indian propaganda than diplomatic correspondence. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hey, Dummy: Climate Change Is Real

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Feb 19, 2010 We're the nation that put a man on the moon, so we can't be stupid. We're just pretending, right? We're not really taking seriously the "argument" that the big snowstorms that have hit the Northeast in recent weeks constitute evidence -- or even proof -- that climate change is some kind of hoax. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Anything to Be on TV

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Oct 20, 2009 Now we know the answer to one of the vexing questions of the modern age: Evidently, there is nothing at all that some people won't do to get on television. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Faux Attack ‘Victim’ Ordered to Undergo Counseling

Staff / Truthdig Oct 31, 2008 Ashley Todd, the 20-year-old McCain campaign volunteer who admitted that she had made up her story about being mugged by a 6' 4" black man who carved a "B" into her face on Oct. 22, has been released from jail under the condition that she undergo psychiatric treatment. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Oops!: News That Was Not Fit to Print

Staff / Truthdig Apr 8, 2008 In an extraordinary 633-word retraction, The Los Angeles Times has renounced an article it published last month that claimed to have new information about an attack in 1994 on rap artist Tupac Shakur, who later was killed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Yxta Maya Murray on ‘Love and Consequences’ Hoax

Yxta Maya Murray / Truthdig Mar 5, 2008 The author who reviewed Margaret Seltzer's phony memoir for Truthdig responds to the hoax and answers the singular question raised by such a deception. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Was the N. Korean Missile Warning a Hoax?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 Defense Tech notes that if Pyongyang really had loaded up all that fuel in the rocket 10 days ago, it would have eaten through the missile's casings by now. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )