Since releasing the document, Zimdars says she's gotten hundreds of suggestions about other fake news websites and will be updating the list as needed.

To help guide internet users through a vast sea of fake or clickbait-y news sites, Merrimack College communication and media professor Melissa Zimdars has compiled a thorough list of fake ...

"20/20" investigates Web sites selling fake designer shoes as the real deal. July 22, 2010— -- They are like jewelry for the feet -- sleek, sensuous designer shoes. What's not to love about them?

Payless (as in the discount shoe store) just pulled off the prank of the century. In an experiment that set out to prove shoppers will pay top dollar just for a label, the brand opened an ...

Fortunately Melissa Zimdars, an assistant professor of communication at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, has put together a long list of fake, satirical and suspect websites which she ...

“Below is a list of fake, false, regularly misleading, and otherwise questionable ‘news’ organizations that are commonly shared on Facebook and other social media sites,” Zimdars explains.

This comes after Nike says it purchased four pairs of fake shoes from StockX over the last few months, including a pair of Air Jordan 1 High OG “Patent Bred” sneakers. A size 11 pair of these ...