This is a list of miscellaneous fake news websites that don't fit into any of the other fake news website lists such as these lists of:
Name | Domain | Status | Notes | Sources |
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24online.news | 24online.news | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
24usainfo.com | 24usainfo.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
24x365live.com | 24x365live.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
365 US News | 365usnews.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [5] [6] | |
7 News Political | 7newspolitical.site | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
70 News | 70news.wordpress.com | A WordPress-hosted site that published a false news story, stating that Donald Trump had won the popular vote in the 2016 United States presidential election; the fake story rose to the top in searches for "final election results" on Google News. | [8] | |
A Folha Brasil | Spoof of Folha de S.Paulo. | [10] | ||
Afrikan-daily.com | Afrikan-daily.com | Spoof of the African Daily Voice. | [11] | |
AfricaZilla | africazilla.com | Impostor site that plagiarizes CNBC stories. | [12] | |
aldipest.com | aldipest.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
America Fans | Americafans.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [5] | |
americanflare.com | americanflare.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
AmericanFlavor.news | AmericanFlavor.news | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
AmericanPoliticNews.co | AmericanPoliticNews.co | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
American Journal Review | Americanjournalreview.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [5] | |
American News (Anews-24.com) | Anews-24.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. Published the same story as Daily Feed News. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [1] [13] [14] | |
The American News | Theamericanews.co | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
American Pride | Americanprides.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [5] | |
American Reviewer | americanreviewer.com | Falsely claimed that Donald Trump made an announcement as president on or around November 14, 2016, two months prior to inauguration. | [15] | |
American Today | americantoday.us | Per PolitiFact Falsely claimed that Barron Trump was hospitalized for pneumonia. Manipulated and misattributed celebrity quote. | [1] [16] [17] | |
americasnewest.com | americasnewest.com | [2] [4] | ||
ANews24.org | ANews24.org | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [18] | |
The Angry Patriot | AngryPatriotMovement.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Anonjekloy.tk | Anonjekloy.tk | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
AntiNews.com | AntiNews.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Anti News Network | unseen-pedia.com | Spread false claims about government-incentivized microchipping. | [19] | |
Are You Asleep | areyouasleep.com | [4] | ||
ArmyUSANews.com | ArmyUSANews.com | Per PolitiFact. Reposted story from the Last Line of Defense. | [1] [20] | |
Astronomy-Physics.com | Astronomy-Physics.com | Falsely claimed that the Perseid meteor shower of 2017 would be "the brightest ... in recorded human history." | [21] [22] | |
Attitude.co.uk | Attitude.co.uk | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Aurora-News.us | Aurora-News.us | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
theavocadonews.com | theavocadonews.com | [4] | ||
Awareness Act | AwarenessAct.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
baldwinpost.com | baldwinpost.com | [23] | ||
Barracuda Brigade | BB4SP.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
bbc.org.sa.com | bbc.org.sa.com | Spoof of BBC. | [24] | |
Before It's News | beforeitsnews.com | Before It's News and InfoWars were described as "unabashedly unhinged 'news' sites" in 2014 by The Washington Post following its promotion of conspiracy theories relating to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Owned by Chris Kitze, who is also on the executive board of the Epoch Times. | [25] [26] [27] | |
BenjaminFulford.typepad.com | BenjaminFulford.typepad.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
BestThings.us | BestThings.us | Per PolitiFact. Spread a fabricated celebrity quote that originated from a Facebook page. | [1] [28] | |
betshort.com | betshort.com | [29] | ||
Big Blue Vision | bigbluevision.org | [2] [3] [4] | ||
Big Nugget News | bignuggetnews.com | [2] [4] | ||
Biohackinfo | BioHackInfo.com | Spread COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories. | [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] | |
Bioreports.net | bioreports.net | Impostor site that plagiarizes CNBC stories. | [12] | |
Bipartisan Report | bipartisanreport.com | Once describing itself at "the internet's largest newspaper", its content is written from a heavily liberal-biased perspective. It has been described as a clickbait and fake news website by Danny Westneat of The Seattle Times , and its articles have been debunked by PolitiFact and Snopes. | [35] [36] [37] [4] [38] [27] | |
bistonglobe.com | bistonglobe.com | Imitates The Boston Globe . | [39] [40] | |
BlackInsuranceNews.com | BlackInsuranceNews.com | Per PolitiFact. Reposted article from satirical site FreeWoodPost.com, without satirical disclaimer. | [1] [41] | |
BlingNews.com | BlingNews.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
Bloomberg.market | Bloomberg.market | Defunct | Designed to imitate Bloomberg.com. Was used to issue a false report announcing that Twitter had received a US$31 billion takeover offer, resulting in a brief 8% stock price spike of Twitter. The site is now defunct. | [42] [43] |
BlueLineStrong.net | BlueLineStrong.net | Per PolitiFact. Repurposed an Associated Press article with a false headline. | [1] [44] | |
Blue Vision Post | Bluevisionpost.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. | [5] [1] | |
bollywoodmasaladay.xyz | bollywoodmasaladay.xyz | Published false quotes from celebrities. | [45] [46] | |
borntoberight.com | borntoberight.com | Falsely claimed that Kathy Griffin was jailed in 2017. | [47] | |
BreakingNewsBlast.com | BreakingNewsBlast.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
thebreakingnews.today | thebreakingnews.today | Has the same IP address as conservativedaily.info | [48] | |
Breaking Top | Breakingtop.world | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. | [5] [1] | |
Brexit Betrayal News | Registered in the United States. Posted stories about QAnon. | [49] | ||
Buffalo Chronicle | buffalochronicle.com | An American fake news website that has promoted fake stories related to Canadian politics. | [50] [51] | |
But Thats None Of My Business | butthatsnoneofmybusiness.com | Described by Snopes and Lead Stories as "hoax" sites. | [4] [52] [53] [54] | |
BuzzBeed | buzzbeed.com | Not to be confused with BuzzFeed. Part of a network created by far-right activists in France. | [55] [56] [57] | |
Cairns News (Australia) | cairnsnews.org | Anti-vaccine website that falsely claimed that two young girls died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination on the Gold Coast, Australia. [58] | [59] | |
CannaSOS | CannaSOS.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [60] | |
CelebSaga | celebsaga.com | Reposted a false story from Conservative Beaver. | [61] | |
chicagotribunesnews.com | chicagotribunesnews.com | Imitates the Chicago Tribune . | [39] [40] | |
choiceandtruth.com | choiceandtruth.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
ChristianTimesNewspaper.com | ChristianTimesNewspaper.com | Impostor site for Christian Times. Falsely claimed voter fraud on behalf of Hillary Clinton. Owned by an aide to David E. Vogt III, whom was let go upon disclosure of the ownership by The New York Times. | [1] [62] [63] [64] | |
ChristianToday.info | ChristianToday.info | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
chuckcallesto.blogspot.com | chuckcallesto.blogspot.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
Clear Politics | clear-politics.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [5] | |
clubsocial-ny.com | clubsocial-ny.com | Has the same IP address as conservativedaily.info | [48] | |
CNewsGo.com | CNewsGo.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
CNN-Business-News.ga | CNN-Business-News.ga | Impostor site of CNN | [1] | |
CNNews3.com | CNNews3.com | Impostor site of CNN. Ran false story about HIV infection from bananas. | [1] | |
COED | coed.com | Falsely claimed a Black Lives Matter protest at Dartmouth College in 2015 turned violent. | [65] | |
CoffeeBreakForYou.com | CoffeeBreakForYou.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Consciously Enlightened | consciouslyenlightened.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
Conservative7.com | Conservative7.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
conservativedaily.info | conservativedaily.info | [48] | ||
conservativefighter.com | conservativefighter.com | Spread false story about Trump removing a federal judge. | [21] | |
conservativeinsider.co | conservativeinsider.co | [2] [4] | ||
theconservativeonline.info | theconservativeonline.info | Has the same Google AdSense account as conservativedaily.info | [48] | |
conservativeonline.net | conservativeonline.net | Has the same Google AdSense account as conservativedaily.info | [48] | |
ConservativeSpirit.com | ConservativeSpirit.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
conservativestudio.com | conservativestudio.com | [2] [4] | ||
ConservativeView.info | ConservativeView.info | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Conservative Angle | Conservativeangle.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
Conservative Nation | Consnation.com | Per FactCheck.org. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [66] | |
Conservative Post | Conservativepost.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
The Conservative Treehouse | Theconservativetreehouse.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. In 2020, it promoted a conspiracy theory that Buffalo police shoving incident victim Martin Gugino was a member of Antifa, which was tweeted out by then-U.S. president Donald Trump. | [7] [1] [67] | |
Consinfo | consinfo.us | Per FactCheck.org. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [6] | |
cooltobeconservative.com | cooltobeconservative.com | [2] [4] | ||
cosonline.cn | cosonline.cn | Impostor site, per DomainTools. | [39] [40] | |
Cyceon | Cyceon.com | Spread false claim about Emmanuel Macron's tax policy proposal during the 2017 French Presidential Election. | [55] | |
Daily Feed News | dailyfeed.news | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [1] [68] | |
dailynews3.com | dailynews3.com | [23] | ||
dailynews33.com | dailynews33.com | [23] | ||
Daily Occupation | dailyoccupation.com | [2] [4] | ||
The Daily Presser | dailypresser.com | Reposted false story from Your News Wire about Clinton body count conspiracy theory. | [2] [3] [4] [69] [70] | |
DailyThings.world | DailyThings.world | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Daily Insider News | Dailyinsidernews.com | Per FactCheck.org. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [66] | |
DamnLeaks.com | DamnLeaks.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
DefenseUsa.club | DefenseUsa.club | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
DemocraticMoms.com | DemocraticMoms.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from Politicalo.com. | [1] [71] | |
DemocraticUnderground.com | democraticmnderground.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
DepartedMedia.com | departedmedia.com | Per PolitiFact. Published false stories with fabricated images. | [1] [72] [73] | |
Diário do Brasil | diariodobrasil.org | Imposter news portal site in Brazil. | [74] [75] | |
DisabledVeterans.org | disabledveterans.org | Spread misinformation about vaccines and COVID-19. | [30] [76] | |
Disclose.tv | disclose.tv | A German disinformation outlet that started out as a UFO conspiracy forum before rebranding as a news aggregator in 2021. It pushes far-right content, anti-vaccine narratives and conspiracy theories, and platforms hate speech, including Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism, on its message groups. | [77] [27] [78] [79] [80] [81] | |
DIYHours.net | DIYHours.net | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
donaldtrumpdaily.info | donaldtrumpdaily.info | Has the same Google AdSense account as conservativedaily.info | [48] | |
donaldtrumpliedto.us | donaldtrumpliedto.us | [82] | ||
DonaldTrumpPOTUS45.com | DonaldTrumpPOTUS45.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Embols | embols.com | [2] [4] | ||
Empire Herald | empireherald.com | Starting in January 2016, this fake news site had spread many of its hoaxes online in just a few weeks. Cited story from World News Daily Report. | [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] | |
ENH | ENHLive.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied false story from the Boston Tribune. | [1] [88] [89] | |
enVolve | En-volve.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. | [5] [1] | |
Every News Here | everynewshere.com | [2] [4] [90] | ||
Evie Magazine | eviemagazine.com | Active | Described by Futurism as "an alt-right women's lifestyle publication" that posts "a range of bizarre and often harmful content including vaccine misinformation, a bevy of wildly unscientific assertions about women's health, anti-trans fearmongering, unsupported 'psyop' conspiracies, and pro-life messaging that often includes false claims about safe and effective abortion drugs." [91] Noted by VICE to spread COVID-19 misinformation and the QAnon conspiracy theory. Started a company to produce a femtech app, 28, which collects menstrual cycle data and is funded by Thiel Capital, Learn Capital, Steel Perlot, and other angel investors. Cited by the Washington Post as an example of "prominent conservative commentators ... sowing misinformation as a way to discourage the use of birth control." [92] | [91] [93] [94] [95] [96] [92] |
The Exposé | expose-news.com | British conspiracist website known for publishing COVID-19 and anti-vaccine misinformation. One of its articles was cited by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in a speech falsely claiming that people vaccinated against COVID-19 were developing AIDS. Copied a false story from The People's Voice. | [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] | |
The Exposé | dailyexpose.uk | URL variation. | [102] | |
FactRider.com | FactRider.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Famous Viral Stories | famousviralstories.com | [4] | ||
FanMagazine.it | FanMagazine.it | Spread false claims about cures for COVID-19. | [30] [103] | |
fanzinger.com | fanzinger.com | [2] [4] | ||
The Federalist Nation | Federalistnation.com | Per FactCheck.org. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [104] | |
The Federalist Tribune | federalisttribune.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. | [5] [1] | |
Fellowship of the Minds | Fellowshipoftheminds.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] [105] | |
Firstpost | FirstPost.com | Per PolitiFact. Includes "a 'Faking News' section full of intentionally bogus content 'to attract your attention.'" | [1] [106] | |
Flash News Corner | Flashnewscorner.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. | [5] [1] [107] | |
Flopping Aces | floppingaces.net | Involved in the Jamil Hussein controversy. | [29] [108] [109] | |
FocusNews.info | FocusNews.info | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [110] | |
ForFreedomWorld.com | ForFreedomWorld.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [111] | |
FR24News.com | fr24news.com | Impostor site that plagiarizes CNBC stories. | [12] | |
freddymag.com | freddymag.com | Fabricated story about Kendrick Lamar. | [112] [113] [114] | |
FreedomsFinalStand.com | FreedomsFinalStand.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [115] | |
FreeInfoMedia.com | FreeInfoMedia.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [116] | |
Free Republic | FreeRepublic.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
friendsofsyria.wordpress.com | friendsofsyria.wordpress.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
The Gateway Pundit | thegatewaypundit.com | A far-right fake news website that repeatedly publishes false stories, including a story involving an unsubstantiated claim that Special Counsel head Robert Mueller sexually assaulted someone. | [117] [118] [119] [120] [121] [122] [123] [124] [125] | |
GiveMeLiberty01.com | GiveMeLiberty01.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Globalresearch.ca | Globalresearch.ca | Principal website of the Centre for Research on Globalization, which The Economist in April 2017 called "a hub for conspiracy theories and fake stories," and NATO information warfare specialists in November 2017 linked to a concerted effort to undermine the credibility of mainstream Western media. | [126] [127] | |
The-Global-News.com | The-Global-News.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
good-kingnews.com | good-kingnews.com | Plagiarized article by the Los Angeles Times. | [128] [129] | |
GOP The Daily Dose | GOPTheDailyDose.com | Posted anti-Muslim stories and celebrity quotes taken out of context. | [130] [65] | |
Gossip Mill Mzansi | gossipmillsa.com | A fake news website using Wordpress, targeting South African affairs. Its misinformation is spread on social media including Facebook and Twitter. | [131] [132] [133] | |
The Grayzone | thegrayzone.com | Owned by Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone is known for its sympathetic views towards contemporary authoritarian regimes such as Venezuela, Russia and China, as well as conspiracy theories such as and disinformation distributed by the Russian government. | [134] [135] [136] [137] | |
GreatGameIndia Magazine | GreatGameIndia.com | Spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. | [138] [139] [30] | |
Greenville Gazette | greenvillegazette.com | [2] [3] [4] [140] [141] | ||
Gummy Post | gummypost.com | Fake news website that has published claims about President Obama issuing a full pardon for convicted rapper C-Murder, musician Kodak Black getting shot outside a nightclub in Florida, and a Hulk Hogan death hoax. | [142] [143] [144] | |
Hal Turner Show | halturnershow.com | Operated by Hal Turner, who is described as an extremist and white supremacist by the Southern Poverty Law Center. | [2] [3] [4] [145] | |
HealthyCareAndBeauty.com | HealthyCareAndBeauty.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Healthy Living Thread | healthylivingthread.com | Falsely claimed that nearly 70% of olive oil brands in the USA had canola oil or sunflower oil. | [47] | |
HeightPost.com | HeightPost.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Higher Perspectives | HigherPerspectives.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [146] | |
hoggwatch.us | hoggwatch.us | [82] | ||
The Honey Pot Times | thetrojanhoneypot.wordpress.com | Impostor site set up by fact-checker to catch business2community.com plagiarizing their work. | [147] | |
I Have The Truth | ihavethetruth.com | Published false story claiming that a student carrying a concealed weapon helped stop a knife attack at the University of Texas Austin in 2017. | [2] [3] [4] [148] | |
IdeaSpots.com | IdeaSpots.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Igor's Newsletter | igor-chudov.com | Published anti-vaccine misinformation. | [149] | |
iMzansi | imzansi.com | Fake news website in South Africa, per Africa Check, an IFCN signatory. | [133] [150] | |
Independent Minute | IndependentMinute.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [151] | |
IndiaTimes.com | IndiaTimes.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
instanthelp24.icu | instanthelp24.icu | Published hoax on missing child. Flagged by Google as potential phishing site. | [152] | |
InterestingDailyNews.com | InterestingDailyNews.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
The International Reporter | theinternationalreporter.org | [2] [3] [4] | ||
TheInternetPost.net | TheInternetPost.net | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
In Trend Today | intrendtoday.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
IsThatLegit.com | IsThatLegit.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied false story from BostonLeader.com with out-of-context imagery. | [1] [153] [154] | |
Jews News | jewsnews.co.il | Per PolitiFact. Reposted a false story from FrontPage Magazine. | [1] [155] | |
Judicial Watch | judicialwatch.org | Conservative activist group known for making false and unsubstantiated claims and filing lawsuits to investigate claimed misconduct, the vast majority of which have been dismissed by courts. [156] | [4] [27] [125] [77] | |
kata33.com | kata33.com | [23] | ||
KBC14.com | KBC14.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
ΚΒΟΙ2.com | ΚΒΟΙ2.com | Notable for its use of the IDN homograph attack, this fake news site used lookalike letters from other scripts (news coverage of the spoof did not specify which, though the examples listed demonstrate Greek and Cyrillic examples) to spoof the legitimate television station KBOI-TV's website in 2011. (The real KBOI site has since moved to a new domain, IdahoNews.com.) The sole purpose of the fake KBOI site was to spread an April Fool's Day joke regarding Justin Bieber being banned in the state. | [157] [158] | |
KCST7.com | KCST7.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
KF13.com | KF13.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
klponews.com | klponews.com | [23] | ||
Konkonsagh.biz | Konkonsagh.biz | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
KRB7.com | KRB7.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
krbcnews.com | krbcnews.com | [23] | ||
krebsonsecurity.org | krebsonsecurity.org | Imitates Krebs on Security. | [39] [40] | |
KTY24news.com | KTY24news.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
LadyLibertysNews.com | LadyLibertysNews.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [159] | |
landrypost.com | landrypost.com | [23] | ||
lanuevaprensa.net | lanuevaprensa.net | Spoof of La Nueva Prensa, a news website in Colombia. | [160] | |
LastDeplorables.com | LastDeplorables.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [161] | |
Law Enforcement Today | lawenforcementtoday.com | Published fake news about police relations amid the George Floyd protests and source of Oregon fires, as well as material by QAnon supporters. [162] | [163] [164] [165] | |
Lead Patriot | leadpatriot.com | [29] | ||
LearnProgress.org | LearnProgress.org | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [166] [167] | |
LiberalPlug.com | LiberalPlug.com | Per PolitiFact. Fabricated a quote from a fictitious politician in the United States House of Representatives. | [1] [168] | |
Liberty-Courier.com | Liberty-Courier.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [66] | |
Liberty Writers News | LibertyWritersNews.com | Established in 2015 by Paris Wade and Ben Goldman, who told The Washington Post their stories focus on "violence and chaos and aggressive wording" to attract readers. The stories reflect the positions of supporters of Donald Trump. A 2018 report by Buzzfeed News linked Wade and Goldman to a Macedonian media attorney who operated numerous "fake news" websites during the six month lead-up to the 2016 Presidential Election. As of 2018, the governments of the United States and "at least two Western European countries" were investigating a possible connection between the Macedonian fake news sites and the Internet Research Agency, as an IRA employee was known to visit North Macedonia in 2015. [169] | [170] [171] | |
The Light | thelightpaper.co.uk | Published misleading COVID vaccination claims. | [172] | |
LinkBeef | linkbeef.com | Fake news website that has published claims about the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 reappearing, a billionaire wanting to recruit 1,000 women to bear his children, and an Adam Sandler death hoax. | [173] [174] [175] | |
LiveMonitor | livemonitor.co.za | Fake news website in South Africa, per Africa Check, an IFCN signatory. | [133] | |
lockerdome.com | lockerdome.com | Falsely claimed that Donald Trump made an announcement as president on or around November 14, 2016, two months prior to inauguration. | [15] | |
London Web News | londonwebnews.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. | [5] [1] [176] | |
losdanieles.net | losdanieles.net | Spoof of Los Danieles. Same owner as lanuevaprensa.net. | [160] | |
MadWorldNews.com | MadWorldNews.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [177] [178] | |
Maine Republic Email Alert | Mainerepublicemailalert.com | Per FactCheck.org. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [179] | |
Major Thoughts | MajorThoughts.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [180] [181] | |
mangozhc.cc | mangozhc.cc | Posted same story as WhatRegistrater.com. | [182] | |
MBGA News | MBGAnews.com | Brexit-related site that redirects to the Red Pill Factory, which was registered in the USA. | [49] | |
MediaMaxZone.com | MediaMaxZone.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [183] | |
mediazone.news | mediazone.news | [2] [3] [4] | ||
Mentor2day.com | Mentor2day.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
MetropolitanWorlds.com | MetropolitanWorlds.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
MMinfo24.com | MMinfo24.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
TheMoralOfTheStory.us | TheMoralOfTheStory.us | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Morning Herald | morning-herald.com | Per FactCheck.org | [5] | |
MSFanPage | msfanpage.link | [2] [3] [4] | ||
MSMBC.co | MSMBC.co | Spoof of MSNBC. Falsely claimed that Steve Burns died in a car accident. | [184] [185] | |
msnbc.website | msnbc.website | Spoof of MSNBC. | [112] [23] | |
MV-media (formerly MV-lehti) | mvlehti.org | A Finnish fake news website that publishes disinformation, pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and Russian state propaganda. The publication has links to the far-right Soldiers of Odin. | [186] [187] [188] [189] | |
Mzansi LIVE | mzansilive.co.za | Fake news website in South Africa, per Africa Check, an IFCN signatory. | [133] [190] | |
Mzansi Stories | mzansistories.com | Fake news website in South Africa, per Africa Check, an IFCN signatory. | [133] | |
Naha Daily | nahadaily.com | Defunct | This fake news website is now defunct, and was active in a span of five months with fake news articles, including a fake quote by Michael Kors. | [83] |
Nation.com.pk | Nation.com.pk | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
National Insider Politics | nationalinsiderpolitics.com | [15] [191] | ||
TheNationalMarijuanaNews.com | TheNationalMarijuanaNews.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
NativeAmericans.us | NativeAmericans.us | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
nbcpoll.co | nbcpoll.co | Falsely claimed that Donald Trump made an announcement as president on or around November 14, 2016, two months prior to inauguration. | [15] | |
Nephef.com | Nephef.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
TheNet24h.com | TheNet24h.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Nevo News | nevo.news | Described by Snopes as a "clickbait web site". Accused by the ADL of inciting violence against Barack Obama. | [2] [3] [4] [192] [193] | |
news14kgpn.com | news14kgpn.com | [23] | ||
news14now.com | news14now.com | [23] | ||
NewsBreakHere.com | NewsBreakHere.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
NewsBreakingsPipe.com | NewsBreakingsPipe.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
NewsBySquad.com | NewsBySquad.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
NewsConservative.com | NewsConservative.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [194] | |
newsdag.com | newsdag.com | Impostor site, per DomainTools | [39] [40] | |
newsdaily10.com | newsdaily10.com | [23] | ||
NewsForMeToday.com | NewsForMeToday.com | Per PolitiFact. Republished a hoax about worldwide blackout. | [1] [195] | |
NewsJustForYou1.blogspot.com | NewsJustForYou1.blogspot.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [196] | |
newsmagazinehouse.co.uk | newsmagazinehouse.co.uk | [29] | ||
newsnow17.com | newsnow17.com | [23] | ||
NewsOfTrump.com | NewsOfTrump.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [197] | |
NewsUpToday.com | NewsUpToday.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [198] | |
newshubs.info | newshubs.info | [112] | ||
NewsWatch28 | newswatch28.com | Previous alias for NewsWatch33. | [199] | |
NewsWatch33 | newswatch33.com | Began in April 2015 under the name NewsWatch28, later becoming NewsWatch33. The website disguises itself as a local television outlet. It has also been known to mix real news along with its fake news in an attempt to circumvent Facebook's crackdown on them. Republished a hoax about worldwide blackout. | [83] [200] | |
NewzMagazine.com | NewzMagazine.com | Per PolitiFact. Part of an online scam network. | [1] [201] | |
NY Evening News | Nyeveningnews.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] [202] | |
New York Times Post | nytimespost.com | Impostor site that plagiarizes CNBC stories. | [12] | |
NNettle.com | NNettle.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
now77news.com | now77news.com | Spread false claim about Charles Manson being granted parole in 2017. | [203] | |
NYC Post | nycpost.pro | Impostor site of The New York Post. | [204] [29] | |
nydaiylnews.com | nydaiylnews.com | Imitates The New York Daily News . | [39] [40] | |
nymeta.co | nymeta.co | Per BuzzFeed News and the Associated Press. | [112] [205] [206] | |
nytimesofficial.com | nytimesofficial.com | Impostor site of The New York Times. | [39] [40] | |
ObserverOnline.news | ObserverOnline.news | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
ourthoughtsnprayers.com | ourthoughtsnprayers.com | [82] | ||
Palmer Report | palmerreport.com | Hyperpartisan liberal political blog known for publishing unsubstantiated or false claims and conspiracy theories, especially on matters relating to Donald Trump and Russia | [4] [38] [27] [78] | |
Patriot Crier | PatriotCrier.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [207] [208] | |
Patriot Hangout | Patriothangout.com | Per FactCheck.org. Copied article from The Rightists, a satire site. | [5] [209] | |
PatriotUSA.website | PatriotUSA.website | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [210] [211] | |
patriotsontheright.com | patriotsontheright.com | Falsely claimed that Kathy Griffin was jailed in 2017. | [47] | |
Political Mayhem News | PoliticalMayhem.news | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
The Political Tribune | Thepoliticaltribune.com | Per FactCheck.org. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [66] | |
PoliticsPaper.com | PoliticsPaper.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [212] | |
PoliticsUSANews.com | PoliticsUSANews.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
PositiveDaily.com | PositiveDaily.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Postcard News | postcard.news | Postcard News is an Indian far-right propaganda and news website. In 2019, its founder, Mahesh Hegde, was arrested for a second time on charges of spreading fake news. Repeatedly shared on social media by BJP leaders. | [213] [214] [215] [216] | |
Power Daily | Powerdaily.us | Per FactCheck.org. | [5] [217] | |
President 45 Donald Trump | President45donaldtrump.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. | [5] [1] [218] | |
Proud Patriots | wetheproudpatriots.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. | [5] [1] [219] | |
Prntly | prntly.com | A politically conservative news site described by Snopes as "a disreputable outlet that has a penchant for publishing both fake news and spurious pro-Trump articles". Copied story from Now 8 News. | [220] [221] [222] | |
ProudLeader.com | ProudLeader.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [223] | |
Puppet String News | Puppetstringnews.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. | [7] [1] [224] [225] | |
RAIR Foundation USA | rairfoundation.com | Spread anti-vaccine misinformation. | [226] [227] | |
therealconservative.info | therealconservative.info | Has the same IP address as conservativedaily.info | [48] | |
RealTrueNews | RealTrueNews.org | Created as a hoax that the author believed would teach his alt-right friends about reader gullibility. | [228] [229] | |
RearFront.com | RearFront.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [230] | |
Red Pill Factory | RedPillFactory.uk | Published false/partisan claims related to immigration, the yellow vest movement and Brexit. | [49] | |
RedRockTribune.com | RedRockTribune.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
Red State Watcher | RedStateWatcher.com | A right-leaning news aggregator, the Washington Post supported the claim that the website's associated Facebook page may have had more user interactions than that of Donald Trump's personal Facebook page as of July 2016. Spread false claims against Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US Presidential election, COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. Posted an out-of-context video about Donald Trump and Sadiq Khan. Accused by the ADL of inciting violence against Barack Obama. | [30] [2] [231] [193] [232] [90] [233] [234] [4] [235] | |
ReflectionofMind.org | ReflectionofMind.org | Per PolitiFact. Republished a hoax about worldwide blackout. | [1] [195] [200] | |
ref-was-adv.sopq-net-q8.xyz | ref-was-adv.sopq-net-q8.xyz | A site impersonating a Saudi news website | [236] [237] | |
ReligionMind.com | ReligionMind.com | Per PolitiFact. Published a false story with an out-of-context image and a fabricated attribution to Human Rights Watch. Copied a story from World News Daily Report. | [1] [238] [239] [240] | |
The Reporterz | thereporterz.com | Starting in early 2016, this fake news website penned several different hoaxes, including one about a murder over a Twitter trend. | [83] | |
Revolutions2040.com | Revolutions2040.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
rickwells.us | rickwells.us | [2] [3] [4] [90] [241] | ||
rightforever.com | rightforever.com | Falsely claimed that Donald Trump made an announcement as president on or around November 14, 2016, two months prior to inauguration. | [15] | |
Rile News | rilenews.com | [112] | ||
Rogue-Nation3.com | Rogue-Nation3.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
TheRooster.com | TheRooster.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
RumorJournal.com | RumorJournal.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied article from The Rightists, a satire site. | [1] [242] [243] [244] | |
Santa Monica Observer | smobserved.com | Published false claims about Paul Pelosi in the aftermath of him being attacked in October 2022. | [245] [246] | |
saynotopot.us | saynotopot.us | [82] | ||
Slay News | slaynews.com | This website has published claims such as that the World Economic Forum wants to use artificial intelligence to write a new bible. Copied a false story from The People's Voice. | [247] [101] [248] | |
Smag31.com | Smag31.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [249] [250] | |
TheSmokersClub.com | TheSmokersClub.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Snoopack | Snoopack.com | Published a false story with an out-of-context image. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [251] [252] [253] [254] | |
snopesisridiculo.us | snopesisridiculo.us | [82] | ||
SocialEverythings.com | SocialEverythings.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
The Solexchange | TheSolExchange.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied a false story from CannaSOS. | [1] [60] | |
South Africa Latest News | southafricalatestnews.co.za | Fake news website in South Africa, per Africa Check, an IFCN signatory. | [133] | |
South Africa Uncut | southafricauncut.com | Per Africa Check and News24. | [255] [256] | |
SouthernConservativeExtra.com | SouthernConservativeExtra.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied an article from truetrumpers.com, a fake news site based in North Macedonia. | [1] [257] | |
sozcu.today | sozcu.today | Spoof of Sözcü. | [258] | |
Special News USA | SpecialNewsUSA.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
Spinzon | spinzon.com | [259] [260] | ||
statenation.co | statenation.co | [2] [3] [4] | ||
Stillness In The Storm | StillnessInTheStorm.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [261] | |
Super Station 95 | SuperStation95.com | Pirate radio station and corresponding website operated by Hal Turner, who is described as an extremist and white supremacist by the Southern Poverty Law Center. | [262] [263] [264] [265] [266] [267] [145] | |
Supreme Patriot | SupremePatriot.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [18] | |
TD Newswire | tdnewswire.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
TDT Alliance | TDTAlliance.com | Per PolitiFact. Impostor site of Fox News. Fabricated a story with quotes from fictitious persons. | [1] [268] [269] [270] | |
TeaParty.org (1776 Tea Party) | TeaParty.org | Per PolitiFact. Published false story about Nancy Pelosi. Published stories from WorldNetDaily. Its founder, Dale Robertson, attended a Tea Party protest carrying a sign with a racial slur. Associated with the Minuteman Project. | [1] [271] [272] [273] | |
Teddy Stick | teddystick.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. Sourced a false claim from /r/The_Donald. | [5] [1] [274] [275] [276] | |
TEOinfo.com | TEOinfo.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied article from The People's Cube. | [1] [277] | |
The-Insider.co | The-Insider.co | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
The Big Riddle | TheBigRiddle.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [278] | |
The Free Thought Project | thefreethoughtproject.com | [279] [280] [231] | ||
The Jim Bakker Show | jimbakkershow.com | Spread false claims about cures for COVID-19. | [30] | |
The Premium News | ThePremiumNews.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [223] [14] | |
Third Estate News Group | ThirdEstateNewsGroup.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from Your News Wire. | [1] [281] | |
Times.com.mx | Times.com.mx | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
TopInfoPost.com | TopInfoPost.con | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
topsecretleaks.com | topsecretleaks.com | Falsely claimed that President Trump shutdown jihadi training camps in New York state. | [47] | |
toutelinfo.fr | toutelinfo.fr | [82] | ||
Tribune Times Today | tribunetimestoday.com | Impostor site setup by journalist to illustrate point about scammers monetizing impostor news sites via ad revenue. | [12] | |
TrueAmericans.me | TrueAmericans.me | Per PolitiFact. Republished a hoax about Barack Obama on a $1 bill, a false claim that had been circulating since 2012. | [1] [282] | |
True Pundit | truepundit.com | A far-right and fake news website known for publishing conspiracy theories that often credited false stories about the FBI and Hillary Clinton to anonymous sources and claimed the mainstream media was covering it up. | [283] [284] [285] [286] [287] [288] [289] | |
trumpfailedthe.us | trumpfailedthe.us | [82] | ||
trumpfooled.us | trumpfooled.us | [82] | ||
trumphasscrewed.us | trumphasscrewed.us | [82] | ||
trumplet.us | trumplet.us | [82] | ||
TheTrumpMedia.com | TheTrumpMedia.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [290] | |
The Trumppers | thetrumppers.com | Per FactCheck.org. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [291] | |
The Truth Is Where | thetruthiswhere.wordpress.com | Repeats a false claim from the Conservative Beaver. | [292] | |
UConservative | uconservative.net | [293] [294] [6] | ||
The Unhived Mind | theunhivedmind.com | The Unhived Mind is a far-right fake news website that has frequently been shared on the alt-tech social network Gab. | [295] | |
univverse.org | univverse.org | Spread false claim about NASA's Kepler telescope detecting a structure built by extraterrestrials. | [203] | |
Urban Image Magazine | UrbanImageMagazine.com | Per PolitiFact. Cited story from World News Daily Report. | [1] [87] | |
Urdoca.com | Urdoca.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
TheUSA-News.com | TheUSA-News.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
USATodayNews.me | USATodayNews.me | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
usatodaypolitics.com | usatodaypolitics.com | Reposted false story from Christian Times Newspaper. | [2] [3] [4] [296] | |
The USA Conservative | theusaconservative.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. The same as Usa-conservative.com. | [5] [1] [6] | |
USA Conservative | Usa-conservative.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [5] | |
USA Conservative Report | USAConservativeReport.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [297] [298] | |
USA Daily Time | USADailyTime.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
USADailyThings24.com | USADailyThings24.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
USAFirstInformation.com | USAFirstInformation.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
usanetwork.info | usanetwork.info | Imitates USA Network. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [299] [300] | |
USA News Hub | theusanewshub.com | Impostor site that plagiarizes CNBC stories. | [12] | |
USANewsHome.com | USANewsHome.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
USANewsToday.com | USANewsToday.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
USAPolitics24hrs.com | USAPolitics24hrs.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
USASnich.com | USASnich.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
usatosday.com | usatosday.com | Imitation of USA Today | [39] [40] | |
USA Train News | Trainnews.info | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
USASupreme.com | USASupreme.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
USTruthWIre.com | USTruthWIre.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
USAWorldBox.com | USAWorldBox.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
US Advisor | USHealthyAdvisor.com | Per PolitiFact. Manipulated and misattributed celebrity quote. | [1] [16] [241] | |
USHealthyLife.com | USHealthyLife.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
USPoliticsInfo.com | USPoliticsInfo.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [301] | |
USSA News | Ussanews.com | Per FactCheck.org. Published false information about COVID-19 vaccinations. Fabricated a letter from the British Ministry of Defense. Promotes QAnon and Holocaust denial conspiracy theories. Shared by Paul Gosar in his newsletter in 2023. | [7] [302] [303] [304] [305] [306] [307] | |
Vessel News | vesselnews.io | [2] [3] [4] | ||
Veterans For Donald Trump | VeteransForDonaldTrump.com | Per PolitiFact. Published a false claim with a Photoshopped image as evidence. Its Facebook page was hijacked by a businessman based in North Macedonia in 2019. The original owner had worked with Liberty Writers News and USApoliticstoday.com, one of the original sites in the network of Macedonian fake news sites. One of the co-founders was arrested for carrying weapons during a vote tally during the 2020 US presidential election, and had met with the Proud Boys prior to the January 6th attacks. | [1] [308] [309] [310] | |
Viral Magazine | ViralMagazine.it | Spread false claims about cures for COVID-19. | [30] [311] [103] | |
Viral News PBS | Viralnewspbs.site | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
VoxTribune.com | VoxTribune.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Washington Feed | WashingtonFeed.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [312] [66] [223] [293] [254] | |
The Washington Press | TheWashingtonPress.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact. Cites an article by Freedom Daily. | [1] [313] | |
The Washington Time | thewashingtontime.com | Impostor site that plagiarizes CNBC stories. | [12] | |
washinqtonpost.com | washinqtonpost.com | Imitates Washington Post | [39] [40] | |
Wazanews.tk | Wazanews.tk | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [1] [314] [315] | |
WeekendPoliticalNews.com | WeekendPoliticalNews.com | Per PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [1] [316] | |
Werk35.com | Werk35.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
WestfieldPost.com | WestfieldPost.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
wftj8news.com | wftj8news.com | [23] | ||
WhatDoesItMean.com | WhatDoesItMean.com | Per PolitiFact. According to Snopes, the site "actively advanced many invented Clinton conspiracy theories in mid-2016." Cited several times by Fars News Agency. | [1] [317] [318] [319] [320] [321] | |
WhatRegistrater.com | WhatRegistrater.com | Scam website that imitates Fox News. | [182] | |
whatsupic.com | whatsupic.com | [2] [3] [4] | ||
whereareyou90.club | whereareyou90.club | Published hoax on missing child. Flagged by Google as potential phishing site. | [152] | |
WhyDontYouTryThis.com | WhyDontYouTryThis.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
Wit The Shit | wittheshit.com | Copied article from Empire News. Accused of using article spinning. | [82] [322] [323] [324] | |
wm21news.com | wm21news.com | [23] | ||
wmacnews.com | wmacnews.com | [23] | ||
wmb36.com | wmb36.com | [23] | ||
Woman Daily Tips | womandailytips.com | Claimed that the FDA banned triclosan in toothpastes. | [47] | |
worldinformation24.info | worldinformation24.info | [2] [3] [4] | ||
WorldNewsCircle.com | WorldNewsCircle.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] [325] | |
The World News Press | Worldnews-24.press | Per FactCheck.org. | [7] | |
World Politics Now | Worldpoliticsnow.com | Per FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. Copied story from The Last Line of Defense. | [5] [1] [326] | |
World.Politics.com | World.Politics.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
WorldTruth.tv | WorldTruth.tv | Per PolitiFact. Spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. | [1] [327] [328] [329] [330] [331] [332] [333] | |
TheWorldUpdate.com | TheWorldUpdate.com | Per PolitiFact. | [1] | |
wrejnews.com | wrejnews.com | [23] | ||
WRPM33.com | WRPM33.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
WY21news.com | WY21news.com | Impostor site, per PolitiFact | [1] | |
XBN-News | Xbn-news.com | Per FactCheck.org. | [5] [253] | |
xpouzar.com | xpouzar.com | Per Africa Check | [334] [335] | |
Yes I'm Right | yesimright.com | [2] [3] [4] [90] [241] [336] | ||
ZootFeed | zootfeed.com | [2] [3] [4] [241] |
TinEye is a reverse image search engine developed and offered by Idée, Inc., a company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. TinEye allows users to search not using keywords but with images. Upon submitting an image, TinEye creates a "unique and compact digital signature or fingerprint" of the image and matches it with other indexed images. This procedure is able to match even heavily edited versions of the submitted image, but will not usually return similar images in the results.
PolitiFact.com is an American nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with offices there and in Washington, D.C. It began in 2007 as a project of the Tampa Bay Times, with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting on the accuracy of statements made by elected officials, candidates, their staffs, lobbyists, interest groups and others involved in U.S. politics. Its journalists select original statements to evaluate and then publish their findings on the PolitiFact.com website, where each statement receives a "Truth-O-Meter" rating. The ratings range from "True" for statements the journalists deem as accurate to "Pants on Fire" for claims the journalists deem as "not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim".
Paul Horner was an American writer, comedian and contributor to fake news websites. Horner has been described as a "hoax artist" by outlets such as The Associated Press, The Chicago Tribune, PolitiFact and The Washington Post.
Fake news websites are websites on the Internet that deliberately publish fake news—hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation purporting to be real news—often using social media to drive web traffic and amplify their effect. Unlike news satire, these websites deliberately seek to be perceived as legitimate and taken at face value, often for financial or political gain. Fake news websites monetize their content by exploiting the vulnerabilities of programmatic ad trading, which is a type of online advertising in which ads are traded through machine-to-machine auction in a real-time bidding system.
A troll farm or troll factory is an institutionalised group of internet trolls that seeks to interfere in political opinions and decision-making.
Fake news websites target United States audiences by using disinformation to create or inflame controversial topics such as the 2016 election. Most fake news websites target readers by impersonating or pretending to be real news organizations, which can lead to legitimate news organizations further spreading their message. Most notable in the media are the many websites that made completely false claims about political candidates such as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as part of a larger campaign to gain viewers and ad revenue or spread disinformation. Additionally, satire websites have received criticism for not properly notifying readers that they are publishing false or satirical content, since many readers have been duped by seemingly legitimate articles.
World News Daily Report (WNDR) was a satirical fake news website purporting to be an American Jewish Zionist newspaper based in Tel Aviv and dedicated to covering biblical archeology news and other mysteries around the globe.
Occupy Democrats is an American left-wing media outlet built around a Facebook page and corresponding website. Established in 2012, it publishes hyperpartisan content, clickbait, and false information. Posts originating from the Occupy Democrats Facebook page are among the most widely shared political content on Facebook.
The People's Voice is an American fake news website based in Los Angeles. The site was founded as Your News Wire in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and his husband, Sinclair Treadway. In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch. Your News Wire was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in NewsPunch. In 2023, NewsPunch adopted its current name, The People's Voice.
The immigration policy of American President Joseph Biden initially focused on reversing many of the immigration policies of the previous Trump administration, before implementing stricter enforcement mechanisms later in his term.
The Libertarian Party Mises Caucus (LPMC) is a caucus within the Libertarian Party in the United States that promotes paleolibertarianism, Fusionism, as well as a more conservative version of American libertarianism associated with the presidential campaigns of former U.S. congressman Ron Paul. It was founded in 2017 by Michael Heise, mainly in opposition to Nicholas Sarwark's position as party chairman and the pragmatic faction of the party associated with the presidential campaigns of former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. It is named after economist Ludwig von Mises.
There are some conspiracy theories about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest mass shooting by one gunman in American history. These hypotheses offer alternate explanations to the official version of the incident, including speculation about the involvement of shooters other than the identified perpetrator, Stephen Paddock.
a fake news blog called '70news,' which falsely claimed that Trump had won both the popular vote and the Electoral College. ... Google acknowledged the error in surfacing the fake news on Monday
a fake-news piece from a WordPress blog called 70News
The most aggressive fake news sites and associated YouTube channels, such as Infowars, The Gateway Pundit, and Daily Stormer, are routinely sued by victims of these published reports for libel and defamation (Ohlheiser 2018; Tani 2018).
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(help)The 4chan board posts were quickly picked up and magnified by The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website that has repeatedly misidentified attackers and continues to promote debunked conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama's birthplace, among other misinformation.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Blumenthal and Rubinstein's outrageous conduct cannot be written off as mere conspiracy mongering or trolling. A retraction is not enough. Dangerous lies and fake news cannot be allowed to run amok.
The GrayZone attack is based on a conspiracy theory, the notion that the omniscient and omnipotent State Department and other U.S. government agencies finance and control the most important organizations and institutions on the American left with the goal of furthering regime change in other countries.
...the emergence of a new form of junket journalism that serves as a global laundering service for blood-splattered autocrats. In recent months, several of the same figures have turned up in capitals from Caracas to Managua whitewashing mass repression; they have dismissed Uighur concentration camps in Xinjiang, slandered protesters in Hong Kong; and they all somehow find Vladimir Putin unimpeachable.
These problematic views are fueled by a disinformation campaign from right-wing outlets, like the Grayzone, that pose as being 'anti-imperialist,' with whole mass-led movements reduced to the positions of their cherrypicked individuals and organizations– thus smearing millions of protestors, from Hong Kong to Xinjiang, as U.S.-backed fascists and imperialists.
In contrast, Gab users who shared more far-right "fake news" websites are relatively more visible on Gab. Some of the most cited sources under this category include the Unhived Mind (N = 2,729), Epoch Times (N = 1,303), Natural News (N = 1,301), Breitbart (N = 769), the Gateway Pundit (N = 422), and InfoWars (N = 656).