screenshot of Cindy McCain during an interview with CBS This Morning co-host John Dickerson that aired on November 16, 2018

Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Arizona Senator John McCain and now board chair of the McCain Institute for International Leadership, recently claimed she’d intervened in a human-trafficking incident at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Phoenix Police Department promptly…

Screenshot of a bespectacled young woman in an office

The recent publication of a hyperbolic study that purported to show an “astronomical” level of demand for sex workers in the Hawaii was punctuated by an odd incident that prompted two law-enforcement agencies to investigate. On Friday, September 21, officers…

Facebook screenshot showing an unsmiling Paul Horner at a 2016 rally for Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson

Comedian and hoaxster extraordinaire Paul Horner earned international infamy for churning out fake news items on sites he created, including SuperOfficialNews.com, NationalReport.net, and NewsExaminer.net. Horner’s tall tales bamboozled so many people over the years that mainstream news outlets initially were reluctant…