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Conservapedia Logo Screenshot Homepage screenshot of the top portion on March 6, 2013 Type of site Online encyclopedia Wiki Available in English Owner Andrew Schlafly Created by Volunteer contributors URL conservapedia.com Commercial No Registration Optional (required to edit pages) Launched November 21, 2006 ; 17 years ago (2006-11-21) Current status Active Content license Unclear (see ...
This is a list of notable satirical news websites which have a satirical bent, are parodies of news, or consist of fake news stories for mainly humorous purposes. For magazines published on paper, see List of satirical magazines.
Evan Bevan (1803–1866, Wales) – satirical poetry in Welsh. Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852, Russia) – The Government Inspector, Dead Souls. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849, US) – The Man That Was Used Up, A Predicament, Never Bet the Devil Your Head. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863, England) – Vanity Fair.
Given that one of Conservapedia selling points is that it is aimed at the 11-16 age group some might call this a problem. A number of articles on Conservapedia appear to rely on "deliberately faulty logic" or appear to be biased to those outside the intended readership group - gun control being an example.
Many popular fake news websites like ABCnews.com.co attempted to impersonate a legitimate U.S. news publication, relying on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on. They exploited common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains such as .com.co as opposed to .com.
This is a list of satirical television news programs with a satirical bent, or parodies of news broadcasts, with either real or fake stories for mainly humorous purposes. . The list does not include sitcoms or other programs set in a news-broadcast work environment, such as the US Mary Tyler Moore, the UK's Drop The Dead Donkey, the Australian Frontline, or the Canadian The Newsr
Pink-slime journalism is a practice in which American news outlets, or fake partisan operations masquerading as such, publish poor-quality news reports which appear to be local news. [1] Researchers and media credibility raters have observed pink-slime journalism being used to support both Republican Party and Democratic Party politicians or ...
e. " Political correctness " (adjectivally " politically correct "; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] policies, [ 4 ] or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society. [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] Since the late 1980s, the term has been used to describe ...