2006, Lonely girl 15 : a 16-year-old girl began posting video blogs about her everyday life under the YouTube username “lonelygirl15.” The videos began to gain more and more of a following as Bree’s parents supposedly went missing.

The infamous antigaming website, MAVAV (Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence) was a hoax created to show how information can be propagated on the internet.

In 2020, someone hacked the Associated Press’s Twitter account and tweeted that two bombs had exploded at the White House. The stock market crashed within seconds only to recover the same day once the tweet was discovered to be a hoax.

The famous legend that America spent millions on the development of a ‘space pen’ that writes upside down

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin once punched a moon landing hoax conspiracy theorist in the face.

In 2007, NBC news scared all Americans when it predicted that US government is planning to implant RFID microchips into all Americans. The intention of government behind this project is to control all the citizens remotely.

Helicopter Shark 2001: This is the first true internet hoax. This image was passed around via email, along with the claim that it was National Geographic’s “Photo of the Year.”

A fake chess-playing machine named the ‘The Turk’ spent nearly 84 years travelling around Europe and the America’s defeating the vast majority of its challengers, including statesmen such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin.

2020, Germany’s Stern magazine announced that one of their reporters, Gerd Heidemann, had uncovered possibly the greatest piece of Nazi memorabilia in the world, the diaries of Adolf Hitler.

In 1967, a magazine published a fake story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs. People didn’t realize it was a hoax and began smoking banana peels to try to get high.

Gmail was announced around midnight on 31st March and initially believed to be a hoax, as a free 1GB email service was previously unheard of.

The man who took the most famous photo of the Loch Ness Monster confessed that it was a hoax when arrested by the police.