After receiving complaints from members of the gay and transgendered community, The Huffington Post removed a poll from its website that asked readers to vote on who has more of a “Tranny Look” between Sofia Vergara and Blake Liveley. The post/poll included quotes from the two women confessing that they each sometimes look like a [...]
As has now been reported in many places, several media outlets last week fell for a hoax study that claimed users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who prefer other browsers. The BBC, which covered the fake news, published a report today revealing the hoax: The story was reported by many high [...]
Simon Dumenco objected after a piece he wrote for Ad Age was aggregated by the Huffington Post: HuffPo’s aggregation, titled “Anthony Weiner vs. Steve Jobs: Who Won On Twitter?,” consisted of basically a short but thorough paraphrasing/rewriting of the Ad Age post — using the same set-up (i.e., pointing out that Apple had the misfortune [...]
Late this week word began to spread on websites, TV, Twitter, and Facebook that there is a new, 13th sign of the Zodiac. Thought you were an Aquarius? Maybe not anymore. The Huffington Post pushed the story hard. They even built an app to help you see which of your friends have a new sign. [...]
Editor's Note: This post contained inaccurate information about CNN's Sanjay Gupta. We have removed the post from the site and regret the error. Link I looked for the cached version of the above post by former candidate for U.S. Senate Jim Neal but nothing came up. If you look at some of the retweets of [...]
In this column on the state of sexuality in America, I mistakenly quoted Nicole Queathem as the author of a mock thesis rating the sexual performance of student athletes. The real author was Karen Owen, while Nicole was only quoted by the New York Times commenting on the thesis. I not only apologize here for [...]
A correction issued by the Huffington Post that was spotted by FishBowl DC: In an embarrassing moment of Freudian word-vomit, we said in Tuesday’s lede that Kal Penn had been ARRESTED when the actor-turned-politico-turned actor had actually been MUGGED (at least we got it right in the article’s body). Despite Kal’s close association with certain [...]
A correction from HuffPo: The Huffington Post has learned that the below video has been doctored. We regret the error and apologize to Mr. Gibson. John Gibson never compared Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum. Rather, as seen in the unedited video below, Gibson played audio of Holder saying “nation of [...]
