Don’t circulate sensational information that you can’t verify, or can’t be verified by a trusted news source. Read more about Hoax “Mossad agents list” circulating online does real harm to Palestinians whose names are on it  

CRIF president Richard Prasquier said his organization should never have published the report and called on Horowitz to offer an apology and explanation. Read more about Head of main French Jewish group apologizes for “false news” of “lynching” of Israeli director 

Horowitz now states falsely that he did not originate the claim that “Arabs” carried out the attack and that he has tried to calm the “maelstrom” sparked by his fabrications. Read more about His lies about brutal “Arab” attack in France exposed, Israeli director Yariv Horowitz concocts new ones 

The Aubagne International Film Festival has called on Israeli filmmaker Yariv Horowitz to retract the claim, widely reported in Israeli media, that he was the victim of a vicious anti-Semitic beating by “Arab youths” that left him unconscious while he was present at the festival earlier this month. Read more about Israeli director Yariv Horowitz must retract false claim of anti-Semitic attack says Aubagne film festival 

Progressive news organization AlterNet has fallen for a story claiming that a prominent Saudi cleric issed a religious edict authorizing sex-deprived fighters in Syria to rape women there. Read more about How progressive AlterNet and Salon fell for “gang rape” fatwa peddled by Islamophobes 

We reaffirm that Ofer Engel deceptively operated accounts impersonating Palestinians and insinuated himself into activist networks. Read more about More evidence corroborates that Israeli Ofer Engel faked Palestinian activists online 

In a strange and alarming twist, an Israeli man who impersonated a Palestinian woman online, emerges in the midst of the Free Gaza controversy. Read more about Israeli man who impersonated Palestinian woman is linked to Free Gaza debacle and photo hoax 

Paul Martin is a BBC-linked journalist who I exposed as a fraud last month, in a major investigative feature. Although a freelancer, Martin has been described by Newsnight as “our correspondent” at least once. The problem is that Martin has a bad habit of using false identities and making up stories, as my article showed. Since this story got out, Martin (whose real name seems to be Paul Cainer) has been trying to cover his tracks. Read more about BBC's Palestine hoaxer Paul Martin tries to cover his online tracks