Newark Mayor Ras Baraka speaks at the groundbreaking celebration for a new development in the city on April 26, 2022. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images hide caption
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Sherri Papini leaves a federal courthouse Monday after Judge William Shubb sentenced her to 18 months in federal prison for faking her own kidnapping in 2016. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
A Facebook worker at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook announced it will start flagging hoax news stories in users' News Feeds. Paul Sakuma/AP hide caption
OK, we're pretty sure this isn't real. (A 1012 Halloween-related festival in Georgia.) Erik S. Lesser/EPA /LANDOV hide caption
Manti Te'o during his interview with Katie Couric. ABCNews.go.com hide caption
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o before the BCS National Championship game against Alabama on Jan. 7 in Miami. Marc Serota/UPI /Landov hide caption
Manti Te'o, pointing skyward during Notre Dame's game against Michigan on Sept. 22. That was the day, he said then, of his girlfriend's funeral service. Now, he says he never met her and they had only an online and telephone relationship. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images hide caption
Manti T'eo. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images hide caption
The sports website Deadspin says the story of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o losing a girlfriend to leukemia is a hoax. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images hide caption
Westminster Coroners Court in London, where the inquest into the death of Jacintha Saldanha was held. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption
Flowers and a note outside the apartments near King Edward VII Hospital in central London where Jacintha Saldanha and other nurses stayed. Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The US Air flight that was forced to return to Philadelphia on Thursday because of the hoax. Clem Murray/MCT /Landov hide caption
Brutus Buckeye, the Ohio State mascot. Does he know? Jamie Sabau/Getty Images hide caption