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The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
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.
Comprobado (hosted by Maldita.es). [ 135] Miniver.org: the first fact-checking web in Spain, launched in 2017, with the purpose of debunking fake news. Accredited by Google as fact-checking organization. [ 136] Newtral: Spanish fact-checking organization founded by journalist Ana Pastor from LaSexta.
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Greater Texas: successor state to the United States, encompassing most of North America, in the novel A Spectre is Haunting Texas by Fritz Leiber. Jesusland: As it appeared on the web following the 2004 Elections. Liberion: A country based on the United States of America in Strike Witches.
The name "American Samoa" first started being used by the U.S. Navy around 1904, [112] and "American Samoa" was made official in 1911. [113] District of Columbia: 1738: Neo-Latin: Columbia: Named for Columbia, the national personification of the United States, which is itself named for Christopher Columbus. Guam: 1898 [115] [note 2] (December ...
Crazy Hillary [ 27] Hillary Clinton. Former First Lady of the United States; former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Senator from New York; Trump's opponent whom he defeated in the 2016 United States Presidential election. Crooked Hillary [ 1] (retired)[ 10] Lyin' Hillary [ 28][ 29] Beautiful Hillary [ 30] Leakin' James Comey [ 31] James ...
The United States government published a fake article in regards to the purchase of the Philippines from Spain, which they had already purchased. [331] Despite this, the topic of fake news has traditionally not been given much attention in Spain until the newspaper El País launched a blog dedicated strictly to truthful news, entitled Hechos ...