List: 185 Hate Crime Hoaxes

#	Date	Summary	Source
1	02/18/2000	'Hate Crime' a Hoax, Say Investigators; Sheriffs say incident engineered by 'victim'	SFGate
2	05/03/2000	Vermont Gay Activist Pastor Admits to Torching His Own Car	LifeSiteNews
3	09/21/2001	An Alaska-based Muslim destroyed his own print shop, defacing the equipment with anti-Muslim graffiti	Michelle Malkin
4	10/01/2001	An ASU student Ahmad Saad Nasim claimed he was assaulted, with the perps shouting "Die Muslim, Die!" but confessed to making it up.	Michelle Malkin
5	08/09/2002	(N.C.) Woman admits to faking hate crime	Free Republic
6	12/18/2002	Hate crime hoax at Ole Miss	Michelle Malkin
7	05/30/2003	A Nashville Iraqi-American torched his own Chevy truck, blaming a hate crime (it was actually insurance fraud)	Michelle Malkin
8	07/01/2003	A Muslim Utah hotel owned burned down his own lodge, falsely blaming local white supremacists	Michelle Malkin
9	03/18/2004	Professor slashed tires, shattered windows & spray-painted racist graffiti on her own car	LA Times
10	09/30/2004	A Texas-based Muslim set his own meat market on fire and spray painted "Go Home" on his door; he was later charged with arson	The New York Times
11	11/09/2004	THE PERFECT VICTIM Azalea Cooley, cause célèbre	Williamette Week
12	02/06/2005	A Cleveland-based Muslim hired an arsonist to burn down his meat store; he blamed bigots but was convicted of insurance fraud	Daniel Pipes
13	03/23/2005	A Muslim father-son due blamed anti-Islam bigotry for being put on a terror watch list (but the story was concocted)	The Oregonian
14	04/28/2005	Author of 'Hate Mail' Caught, Arrested at Trinity University	Christian Post
15	05/09/2005	A Calif. high school student "faked a series of gay bashing incidents" against herself	The Los Angeles Times
16	08/31/2006	A Muslim Ohio-based dad-son duo set their own restaurant on fire, blaming anti-Islam bigots (they were later charged with arson)	Patrick Poole
17	03/02/2007	Ada, Okla. woman confesses anti-LGBT hate crime was faked	Ada News
18	04/02/2007	Sometimes a “Hate Crime” Isn’t Exactly a “Hate Crime” at All	Debbie Schlussel
19	11/05/2007	Jury Acquits Man Falsely Accused by Gay Rights Activists	LifeSiteNews
20	11/05/2007	A GWU student journalist faked an anti-Semitic hate crime against herself	MyFoxDC
21	11/06/2007	Jewish student behind some dorm swastikas	Jewish Telegraphic Agency
22	10/25/2008	John McCain staffer Ashley Todd claimed she was beat up by an Obama supporter, but later admitted making it up	Huffington Post
23	12/22/2009	A Democratic activist, trying to create a Tea Party-driven hate crime, smashed the windows at the Colo. Democratic Party headquarters	Michelle Malkin
24	03/02/2010	UCSD Student Apologizes For Hanging Noose In Library	KPBS
25	06/11/2010	A British Muslim faked his own abduction, blaming racists	The Daily Mail
26	07/08/2010	A Ga.-based Muslim set fire to his own mosque in an attempt to create a fake hate crime	Associated Press
27	07/28/2010	Two British Muslims claimed bigotry explained being denied entry on a bus, but CCTV footage revealed they were berating the driver	Daniel Pipes
28	11/18/2010	An Australian Muslim pulled over for irregular license plates blamed bigotry; police footage showed the cop behaved professionally	The Daily Telegraph
29	04/05/2011	UNC officials: student wasn't hate-crime victim, may face charges	The Daily Tar Heel
30	05/07/2011	UVA Declines to Charge Student for False Racial Profiling Claim	The Atlantic
31	02/15/2012	Montclair State students are charged with faking racist graffiti	NJ.com
32	05/18/2012	Lesbian couple accused of faking hate crime at Colorado home	Fox News
33	07/05/2012	Lesbian teen faked anti-gay notes that sparked college’s ‘Solidarity Rally’	LifeSiteNews
34	08/09/2012	Montana man who claimed he was beaten by homophobic thugs actually injured self doing a flip off a curb (VIDEO)	New York Daily News
35	08/22/2012	Lesbian who reported 'hate crime' attack staged incident, Nebraska police say	CNN
36	10/23/2012	A black South Carolina woman wrote "KKK" on the hood of her car and set herself on fire, blaming it on others	The Monroe Morning Star
37	10/30/2012	Kyle Wood Assault ‘Unfounded,’ As Wisconsin Volunteer Recants Claim Of Hate Crime Attack	Huffington Post
38	02/02/2013	Austrian-Albanians torched their own pizzeria, but tried pinning the blame on racists	Kurier
39	03/06/2013	An Asian American Oberlin student defaced a memorial arch with anti-Asian graffiti ("Death to Ch*nks")	Michelle Malkin
40	05/01/2013	A liberal blogger at the University of Wyoming threatened herself with rape, framed conservatives	Campus Reform
41	07/25/2013	An Iraqi immigrant in San Diego killed his wife, putting an anti-Muslim note next to her body; he was charged with first degree murder	The San Diego Reader
42	07/31/2013	Minister who claimed racial bias pleads guilty to setting fire to his home	Richmond Times-Dispatch
43	08/23/2013	'Progressive pranksters' organized a series of fake hate crimes at Oberlin College including anti-gay graffiti and swastikas	Michelle Malkin
44	11/14/2013	An imam in the south of France defaced his own mosque with anti-Muslim graffiti	La Rep des Pyrenees
45	11/27/2013	EXCLUSIVE: Shocking discovery in hoax bias incident at Vassar College	The Daily Caller
46	11/27/2013	A New Jersey waitress wrote an anti-gay note in lieu of a tip on a receipt, blaming hateful customers	The Blaze
47	12/27/2013	Report: Man Who Claimed Anti-Gay Beat Down Arrested for Filing False Police Report	The Daily Caller
48	01/15/2014	Retrospective: Is Chris Christie Less Believable Than Tawana Brawley?	Town Hall
49	02/15/2014	Mom’s Homophobic Response To Gay Dads’ Birthday Invite Was A Radio Show Hoax	Huffington Post
50	03/06/2014	Transgender teen girl admits lying about sexual assault ‘hate crime’ in high school bathroom	LifeSiteNews
51	03/24/2014	POLICE: Racist Graffiti on Dorm Door Ruled Hate Crime Hoax	College Fix
52	05/06/2014	Lesbian admits she faked anti-gay ‘hate crime’ to get out of doing her homework	LifeSiteNews
53	06/24/2014	Iraqi immigrant gets 26 years-to-life for killing wife in Calif., initially thought to be hate crime	CBS News
54	09/02/2014	Hate Crime Exposed as Hoax: Student Hung ‘White’ and ‘Colored’ Signs to ‘Make a Point’	College Fix
55	10/21/2014	Two Muslim bloggers filmed themselves ostensibly being harassed by the NYPD in a video that went viral; however, it was staged	The Smoking Gun
56	12/02/2014	Student Fakes a Rape Threat to Advance Diversity Initiatives	National Review
57	12/12/2014	Citywise: City report debunks ‘noose’ allegation at Oakland corporation yard	The Mercury News
58	12/27/2014	A Fresno, Calif.-based Muslim torched his own mosque, blaming bigots; he was later arrested for arson	PJ Media
59	02/16/2015	HATE-CRIME HOAX: This Muslim student’s wild tale was completely fabricated	College Fix
60	03/03/2015	Gay rights activist's faked his own kidnapping, leading to arrest	WLWT NBC 5
61	03/03/2015	Adam Hoover, Ohio Gay Rights Activist, Charged With Making False Kidnap Claim	Huffington Post
62	07/01/2015	Man Who Claimed Ant-Gay Attackers Carved 'Die Fag' into His Arm Made up Story	The Daily Caller
63	08/04/2015	Owner admits setting fire to gay nightclub in Oak Park	ABC7 Chicago
64	08/05/2015	Tennessee lesbian couple faked hate crime and destroyed own home with arson for insurance claim, jury rules	New York Daily News
65	09/23/2015	'Nooses' Found Hanging on University of Delaware Campus Were Lanterns	NBC News
66	10/13/2015	A gay man who claimed to have been the victim of a hate crime at a Univ. of N. Dakota fraternity party fabricated his entire stor	The Daily Caller
67	11/12/2015	LSU: 'Noose' on social media not what it looks like	WBRZ 2
68	11/17/2015	Nov. 17 incident at Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center	Vanderbilt News
69	11/18/2015	A black Saginaw Valley State Univ. student made a threat to "shoot every black person I can"	The Washington Times
70	12/01/2015	Tweets threatening to kill all black students at Kean U. posted by black female activist, police say	College Fix
71	12/30/2015	A Houston Muslim set fire to his own mosque, prompting a hate-crime investigation	The Houston Chronicle
72	02/27/2016	New York Students Fabricated Hate Crime, Police Say	Time
73	03/11/2016	Lesbian Professor Cold-Cocked Her Own Face then Swore Random Guy Beat Her up at Tobey Keith Concert	The Daily Caller
74	03/29/2016	A Palestinian reported a Jewish terrorists attacked his family, defacing their house with anti-Arab graffiti; he fabricated the entire incident	Arutz Sheva
75	04/28/2016	SURPRISE! Campus Noose Drawing Was Created By Black Students. NO CHARGES FILED For ‘Hate Crime’	Daily Caller
76	05/16/2016	Gay pastor apologizes, says Whole Foods cake slur a hoax	USA Today
77	05/17/2016	HATE CRIME HOAX: Black student at U. of Iowa who started a bar fight will not be charged	College Fix
78	06/01/2016	DePaul Students Traumatized by Pro-Trump Message, Rope Found After Milo Visit	Breitbart
79	06/17/2016	Student: Clemson let white students be tarred and feathered for hate-crime they knew was hoax	College Fix
80	08/13/2016	An Austin man purchased a cake from Whole Foods and falsely claimed it contained a homophobic slur	The American Statesman
81	11/09/2016	VIDEO: Suspect wanted for racist Trump vandalism in South Philly	Philly Voice
82	11/10/2016	Note reading 'Bye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista' found in Kivette Hall	Elon News Network
83	11/10/2016	Police: No official report of ugly racial incident at Delaware gas station	Philly Voice
84	11/10/2016	Muslim Student Lied About Hate Crime By Man In ‘Trump Hat’	11 / 21 CBS DFW
85	11/15/2016	This Indiana church was defaced with ‘HEIL TRUMP’ graffiti — and is keeping it	Washington Post
86	11/17/2016	BG police say student lied about politically driven attack	ABC13 WTVG
87	11/18/2016	Man admits to faking hate crime in Malden	Boston Herald
88	11/19/2016	BGSU: Second report of slur, attack false too	The Blade
89	11/20/2016	Fake Hate Crime on Campus Terrifies Students	The Minnesota Republic
90	11/21/2016	Students Face Disciplinary Action After Hoaxing ‘KKK’ Vandalism	Breitbart
91	11/23/2016	ANOTHER TRUMP-INSPIRED ‘HATE CRIME’ TURNS OUT TO BE A HOAX	The Daily Caller
92	12/01/2016	A 58-year-old black New Jersey man painted anti-black, pro-Trump graffiti in his neighborhood after Election Day	The Philadelphia Inquirer
93	12/02/2016	Villanova U. ends probe into report of post election incident	Philadelphia Inquirer
94	12/12/2016	Cops: Man faked 'KKK' hate crime, own kidnapping after lighting car on fire	Orlando Sentinel
95	12/14/2016	Muslim Woman Reportedly Admits To Fabricating NYC Subway Attack	The Daily Caller
96	12/19/2016	Pro-Trump Babson students cleared in Wellesley incident	Boston Globe
97	12/21/2016	Long Island man charged in Nassau Community College swastika case	WABC 7 New York
98	12/21/2016	Arab student at University of Michigan falsely claims someone threatened to set her on fire	Michigan Radio
99	12/22/2016	Miss. black church fire was called a hate crime. Now parishioner has been arrested for it.	The Washington Post
100	12/26/2016	White husband confesses to wife to setting their cars on fire and painting racial slur on their garage door in staged 'hate crime'	Daily Mail
101	01/10/2017	SDSU Police: No Suspect in Attack on Muslim Student	NBC 7 San Diego
102	01/11/2017	Police charge Arundel High student in connection with threatening tweet	FOX 5 Baltimore
103	02/03/2017	STUNNER: Allegedly Muslim Student Faked Vile Hate Crime To Get People To Pay Attention To Him	Stateline.com
104	03/23/2017	College ‘Diversity Council’ Admits to Posting Fake Racist Flyers On Campus	National Review
105	04/10/2017	Charlotte arson case blamed on“white America” Trump supporters actually set by black man	Charlotte Observer
106	04/14/2017	2 teen girls from Frisco charged with spray-painting racial slurs on Plano West Senior High	Dallas Morning News
107	04/21/2017	U.S./Israeli Man Charged in Connection with Threats to Jewish Community Centers, Conveying False Information, and Cyberstalking	U.S. Dept. of Justice
108	04/21/2017	ISU professor arrested, accused of making up threats and attack	Terre Haut Tribune-Star
109	05/11/2017	Another Fake ‘Hate Crime’: ‘Fabricated’ Note Sparked Protests at Minnesota College	Mediaite
110	06/26/2017	Police Report Contradicts ‘Hate Crime’ Narrative In Milwaukee Attack On Muslim Woman	Daily Caller
111	06/28/2017	University of Maryland Police Investigate Discarded Plastic Wrap as a ‘Hate-Bias’ Incident	Breitbart
112	08/01/2017	Jackson LGBTQ rights activist charged with arson	Fox News
113	08/09/2017	Police Say Reported Noose In Ivy City Was Rope Used For Moving Equipment	DCist
114	09/13/2017	A Des Moines Muslim started a fire at a mosque, sparking a fake hate crime	Michelle Malkin
115	09/13/2017	A Houston Muslim set fire to his own mosque, sparking a hate-crime investigation	Michelle Malkin
116	09/13/2017	A New York Muslim who killed his wife falsely blamed "a group of bigots who called the family 'terrorists'"	Michelle Malkin
117	09/13/2017	An Ontario Muslim faked an assault against himself, claiming his assailant shouted anti-Muslim epithets	Michelle Malkin
118	09/13/2017	A Muslim Indiana State University professor for "fabricating anti-Muslim threats and an assault"	Michelle Malkin
119	10/06/2017	The ‘Noose’ Discovered In A Michigan State Dormitory Was Someone’s Lost SHOELACE	Daily Caller
120	11/06/2017	K-State Hate Graffiti Turns Out To Be — You Guessed It — A Hoax	The Daily Caller
121	11/08/2017	A black student wrote those racist messages that shook the Air Force Academy, school says	The Washington Post
122	11/21/2017	Racist Graffiti at High School Was Written by ‘Non-White’ Student	The Daily Caller
123	01/15/2018	Hijab-cutting incident did not happen, Canadian police say	ABC News
124	04/23/2018	Racist, anti-black graffiti at Easter Michigan University turns turned out to be painted by a black man	Detroit News
125	06/12/2018	What really happened that night at Pulse	NBC News
126	07/23/2018	Waiter faked story that customer wrote ‘We don’t tip terrorist’ on receipt	The Washington Post
127	07/24/2018	A Muslim waiter in wrote "we don't tip terrorist" and blamed a patron, who was banned	BBC
128	07/31/2018	Area sheriff livid over lie spread about employee on social media	CBS 10 KWTX
129	08/24/2018	Michigan children who claimed white man urinated on black girl and called her names made up story	AL.com
130	09/15/2018	Woman Who Said She Found Hateful Note on Car After Teens Yelled ‘Trump 2016!' Made Up Story: Police	NBC 4 New York
131	10/06/2018	Shoelace mistaken for noose causes racial uproar at Michigan State University	Fox News
132	10/09/2018	Ohio University student charged with making 'false alarms' after claiming she received homophobic death threats	Yahoo! Finance
133	11/09/2018	Report: High School Marching Band Racial Slur Incident Actually a Hoax	Breitbart
134	11/12/2018	Racial Incident at Kansas State Revealed to Be a Hoax	Breitbart
135	11/19/2018	Chipotle Rethinking Manager Firing over Apparent Race Hoax	Breitbart
136	12/01/2018	A black college lacrosse player spray painted the N word and death threats -- against himself	The Daily Mail
137	12/02/2018	Four out of Five Racist Notes Were Fake at an Iowa University: School Officials	The Daily Caller
138	02/12/2019	Actor Jussie Smollett claimed 2 Trump fanatics found him at 2 AM, beat him up, poured bleach on him, tied a noose around him, and yelled "This is MAGA country"; turns out he orchestrated it	CBS News
139	02/23/2019	Student in cowboy outfit causes racial angst at Wake Forest U.	College Fix
140	02/25/2019	A transgender activist burned down his own home, killing his pets, presented it as a hate crime	Detroit News
141	07/17/2019	Not a hate crime: ‘Noose’ at U. Michigan hospital was a fishing knot	College Fix
142	08/15/2019	Witnesses say Stanford University noose likely was used ‘to hang ornaments’	College Fix
143	09/15/2019	Ex-NFL player accused of staging hate crime, painting 'MAGA' and swastikas on walls of bakery	NBC News
144	09/30/2019	Virginia sixth-grader now says she falsely accused classmates of cutting her hair	The Washington Post
145	10/22/2019	‘Act of hate’ at Michigan State was actually just a Halloween prank	College Fix
146	12/05/2019	‘Heil Trump’ and an anti-gay slur scrawled on a church lead to an unlikely suspect - and a hoax	The Washington Post
147	12/20/2019	Rantz: Trans hate crime near Seattle? No. She was the aggressor	KTTH AM 770
148	12/31/2019	Kansas police officer claimed a McDonalds worker wrote "pig" on his receipt, but actually he did	The New York Times
149	04/13/2020	Racist Threats and Attacks that Rattled a California University Campus Were Faked, Police Say	Newsweek
150	06/18/2020	'Nooses' in Oakland park were exercise aids, man says	ABC News
151	06/23/2020	FBI Says Noose Found In Bubba Wallace’s Stall Had Been There Since 2019	Daily Caller
152	06/24/2020	University of La Verne: Student Charged with Hate Crime Hoax Shows Power of Racism in America	Breitbart
153	07/07/2020	Oregon Politician Said He Received Racist Letter. He Wrote It Himself, Police Say	Daily Caller
154	07/10/2020	Police: Student Who Claimed Racist Notes Were Left On His Car Put Them There Himself	LaCorte News
155	10/02/2020	Prosecutors: Not enough evidence to prove Wisconsin attack	Associated Press
156	10/04/2020	Busted! Yet Another Race Industry Hoax	Winter Watch
157	11/10/2020	Owner of SUV spray-painted with racist and homophobic graffiti facing insurance fraud charges	WGRZ
158	11/19/2020	Black teen spray painted racist graffiti on his own car	WGRZ
159	02/25/2021	CAUGHT IN THE ACT: Police conduct surveillance at KC church that was target of vandalism, arrest black man	KCTV 5
160	03/03/2021	The Media-Fed Race Hoax at Smith College Reveals an Aversion to Facts for Journalists	Town Hall
161	04/01/2021	15 Years Ago Duke Hate-Crime Hoax Was Peddled by Media and Racial-Justice ‘Reformers’	Minding the Campus
162	04/09/2021	Black student responsible for racist graffiti at American college	The Post Millennial
163	04/16/2021	Minnesota high school student who was falsely accused of sending racist Instagram messages to a black classmate fears for her safety despite officials confirming they were a hoax	Daily Mail
164	05/01/2021	Black Penn State profs report ‘noose’ behind house; ends up being part of neighbor’s swing set	College Fix
165	05/25/2021	Another Hate Hoax: Vandals Target Black-Owned Auto Repair Shop with Racist Graffiti, Smash Up Cars – Security Footage Shows it’s Two Black Guys	Gateway Pundit
166	05/31/2021	Hate-crime hoax: Noose reported on campus just crane’s steel cable loop	College Fix
167	06/09/2021	Nolte: Fact Check — No, Spokane Students Were Not Forced to ‘Pick Cotton’	Breitbart
168	06/11/2021	Hate-crime hoax: Black student likely egged her own door, police say	College Fix
169	06/14/2021	Black student who set fire to her dorm in hate-crime hoax awaits court hearing	College Fix
170	06/21/2021	Pride Crash Now Blamed On Accident, Not Attack	KTSA
171	09/09/2021	A 20-year-old Spanish man who claimed 8 hooded men carved [fag] on his butt made it up	El Mundo
172	09/30/2021	Black student is revealed to have written N-word graffiti that called for death of black people and led to walk-out at Missouri high school	The Daily Mail
173	10/01/2021	HOAX: Black woman charged after allegedly posing as white male and sending violent, racist notes to neighbors	The Post Mellenial
174	10/07/2021	Black college student arrested after allegedly posting fake racist frat party invite that read, 'No blacks'	Blaze Media
175	10/11/2021	Superintendent rails against noose found in HS restroom as 'breach' of district's 'values.' Turns out student attempting self-harm created it. NEWS	Blaze Media
176	02/02/2022	Man who drew Union Station swastikas is twice-deported criminal	Washington Examiner
177	02/20/2022	Black female high school student is identified as vandal behind racist graffiti that saw Sacramento high school's water fountains scrawled with 'white' and 'colored'	Daily Mail
178	06/14/2022	Fake letters posing as Right Wing group tells Muslims to "Go back to Sh*tholes".	The National Pulse
179	08/30/2022	Racist Comments at BYU Volleyball Game Never Happened, Sources Suggest	BYU Cougar Chronicle
180	12/02/2022	Black female in ‘head scarf’ attacked UVA ‘Black Cultural Center’: police	The College Fix
181	12/13/2022	Investigation found no n-word slurs at Wash. state football game, some media keep misleading	KTTH
182	06/22/2023	Gay man claimed he was set on fire in hate-crime attack; but cops say video shows him beating up pregnant woman - who fought back with flame	Blaze Media
183	11/15/2024	Rhodes College	News Outlets
184	03/24/2025	Noose of City Employee's desk (LaTarsha Brown)	News Outlet
185	03/24/2025	LaTarsha Brown and Allentown, PA School Board Member Charged with Making False Report and Tampering with Evidence	X