As if 2016 couldn't get any worse, a high-profile cyber attacker hijacked Sony's music page and declared Britney Spears dead yesterday.
Fortunately, it was a hoax. Britney is a-o-k.
As you've likely heard by now, Blac Chyna left Rob Kardashian over the weekend and took the couple's 1-month-old daughter, Dream, with her.
Obviously, Rob is upset by the development, but he's expressing his sadness in a highly unorthodox and very 2016 fashion.
Is Jaden Smith dead? Fans across the world are freaking out over a suicide death hoax, one that has dogged the young celebrity for over a week.
Disturbing as that is, we can happily report that he is alive.
Jimmy Kimmel says he wasn't behind the viral video of Dennis Quaid's meltdown on a movie set, though he acknowledges why people might assume he was.
Mark McGrath is not dead, despite a harsh online hoax claiming he was shot and killed this week. The Sugar Ray frontman assures us he is alive and well.
Macaulay Culkin is not dead, despite another fast-spreading Internet hoax indicating the Home Alone star's demise ... for the second time this year alone.
The troubled and sometimes reclusive actor, 34, who at one point was reportedly in the throes of heroin addiction and appeared gaunt, is alive and well.
The viral story of a wedding invite a bride accidentally texted to a stranger who showed up anyway to crash the thing has been revealed as a hoax.
The wedding photo is real and the real story behind it is pretty darn good, though.
A viral Facebook hoax is saying Miley Cyrus died this weekend. Don't believe any of the hype that Miley Cyrus is dead, though, and don't click on any links.
According to the sham report, the singer passed away at her home due to an overdose, but it’s all a farce. The headline spreading virally reads:
Women across the world already prone to swooning over Ryan Gosling were given another amazing reason to do so this weekend. Too bad it wasn't real.
On Saturday, a fake Facebook page claiming to be the actor's official page posted an emotional missive accompanied by a photo of him with a baby.
Could the James Franco Instagram scandal be an elaborate marketing hoax? That theory is going around after the trailer for his new film just dropped.
In Palo Alto, James plays a teacher seducing a student. Coincidence?
James Franco tried to seduce a Scottish teenager in a series of flirty Instagram messages before learning she was only 17, a new report alleges.
According to the Mirror (UK), the blonde teenager ran into the star in New York on a birthday trip with her mother, posting a short video of their meeting.
News of an Ariana Grande nude photo leak rocked Twitter late last night and early this morning, complete with the globally trending #ArianasNudesLeaked.
If the photos were real, it would surely come as a shock, as this is one good girl who you'd never expect to go bad, even in an age of so few surprises.
Pele is dead. At least one were to trust CNN, which many people understandably might given its (rapidly diminishing) reputation as a real news organization.
Fortunately for Pele, and unfortunately for CNN's future, he is alive and well.
Trey Songz has become the latest victim of a Twitter hoax today, but the R&B singer was not killed off a la Chumlee or Wayne Knight by the Internet.
He was merely outed as gay.
Goodbye, Newman? Not so fast.
Wayne Knight is not dead. The actor is very much alive and well despite an elaborate online death hoax that falsely reported his demise this weekend.
Despite a hoax circulating on the Internet that Chumlee (a.k.a. Austin Russell) of Pawn Stars fame had died, he took to Twitter to prove otherwise.
"May we live long, Rich forever," he tweeted Wednesday.
Miranda Barbour says she left a deadly trail of bodies in her wake before being arrested for a single murder earlier this winter, but is she telling the truth?
An awful response to a child's birthday invitation is making its rounds on the Internet. The reason? The kids' parents are gay, and a classmate's mom is not a fan.
Sunday night's Super Bowl XLVIII result was certainly a joke, but was it rigged? The online conspiracy theorists are swarming following the lopsided outcome.
The Seattle Seahawks didn't just beat the Denver Broncos, they absolutely demolished them in every conceivable facet of the NFL championship game.
Brian Dawe is making (not at all) surprising allegations regarding his “relationship” with Farrah Abraham, claiming it was all a farce staged to get on VH1.
Dawe claims the “faux-mance” was solely for the purpose of appearing on Couples Therapy, but at the last minute, he couldn’t go through with it.
The rumored death of Sharkeisha, a Houston teen who punched and beat a classmate senseless in a video that went viral last month, was trending last night.
Not unlike allegations that Paul Walker faked his death, which also stemmed from bogus online sources, it appears to be a hoax. Sharkeisha is alive and well.
Paul Walker faked his death, according to a website publishing a story describing and depicting with photo "evidence" how the star pulled off the hoax.
As was the case the day of Paul's death, when a Facebook hoax claimed his demise was untrue and gave many false hope, the only hoax here is the hoax itself.
Harvard University student Eldo Kim has been named in a criminal complaint alleging he was responsible for bomb threats at the college this week.
His stunt led Harvard school officials to delay some final exams that had been scheduled for Monday, which it turns out was exactly his intention.
A new video titled "R.I.P. Lil Wayne, Rapper Found Dead" is going viral across Facebook and other social media platforms, leaving fans fearing the obvious.
Lil Wayne is not dead, however, despite what the video's title would have you believe (and despite his very real health problems in recent years).
