Hate Hoax

Eric Scheiner | October 19, 2022
A black airman at the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, is facing discipline after officials found that text messages appearing to…
Eric Scheiner | October 18, 2022
18-year-old Pharrell Smith of Alabama was arrested earlier this month and will face a terror charge after threatening to shoot Black people at the…
Brittany M. Hughes | February 11, 2020
Jussie Smollett, the actor behind one of the most famous hate hoaxes in recent memory, was indicted by a special prosecutor Tuesday stemming from the…
Brittany M. Hughes | September 30, 2019
A student at a private middle school who accused her classmates of forcibly cutting her hair in a racially-charged attack is now admitting she made…
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ashley.rae | January 22, 2018
The family of the Canadian Muslim girl whose story of being attacked by an anti-Muslim zealot while walking to school captivated international…
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ashley.rae | November 8, 2017
It turns out the viral story about a racial slur written outside a dorm room at the U.S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School was actually written by…
ashley.rae | August 28, 2017
It turns out the story of the 26-year-old man who claimed he was stabbed because of his “neo-Nazi” haircut is a hoax. Joshua Witt’s tale about being…