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Posted by Mike LaChance on January 22, 2018 16 Comments
Campus race hoaxes are common and are usually meant to serve a specific purpose. Sometimes, the hoax perpetrators are doing it as a preface to issuing demands. In other instances, it's meant to advance a political narrative. In a recent case at the University of Maryland, it appears to be the actions of an angry employee.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 16, 2018 46 Comments
Friday, eleven-year-old Khawlah Noman claimed that while she was walking to her school with her ten-year-old brother, a scissor-wielding Asian man in his 20s used scissors in repeated attempts to cut her hijab. Once she got to school, she told school officials who then escalated the complaint up the chain until the girl was sitting in front of a bevy of news cameras and Canada's Prime Minister was issuing statements on the incident.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 08, 2017 27 Comments
Another day, another incident of fake hate revealed.  Two, actually.  Back in September, the United States Air Force Academy Prep School was rocked by the appearance of racial slurs on white boards in the campus dorms.  The resulting video in which Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria addresses the cadets and tells any racists among them to "get out" went viral. In another incident at Kansas State University, a black student's car was defaced with racist graffiti. Both incidents have been revealed to have been perpetrated by the black "victims."

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on October 19, 2017 19 Comments
2017, a most ridiculous time to be alive. Wednesday, internet sleuths thought they were really on to something -- the "Melania Trump" standing next to the president was not in fact Melania, they claimed. Dressed in a trench coat and sporting a fab pair of sunglasses, someone whose TV has jacked up aspect ratio decided the difference in appearance was substantial enough to suggest the first lady had a body double.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 28, 2017 6 Comments
Social media took off late Tuesday night after video caught a helicopter circling Venezuelan government buildings, including the Supreme Court. Reports indicate that the helicopter "fired 15 shots at the Interior Ministry, where scores of people were at a social event, and dropped four grenades on the court, where judges were meeting." President Nicolas Maduro immediately slammed the attack, which he called a coup attempt. But other theories have come to light with the opposition saying Maduro staged the coup attempt as a way to crackdown on his opponents and grab more power.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2017 23 Comments
You may recall our extensive and widely-cite coverage of The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013:
A massive racism hoax took place at Oberlin College in February 2013 in which two students made seemingly racist, anti-Semitic and other such posters, graffiti and emails for the purpose of getting a reaction on campus, not because they believed the hostile messages.  At least one of the two was an Obama supporter with strong progressive, anti-racist politics. School officials and local police knew the identity of the culprits, who were responsible for most if not all of such incidents on campus, yet remained silent as the campus reacted as if the incidents were real.  National media attention focused on campus racism at Oberlin for weeks without knowing it was a hoax.
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