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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.
Conservatismin the United States. Breitbart News Network ( / ˈbraɪtbɑːrt /; known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart, or Breitbart.com) is an American far-right [5] syndicated news, opinion, and commentary [6] [7] website founded in mid-2007 by American conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart.
e. Andrew James Breitbart ( / ˈbraɪtbɑːrt /; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative journalist [ 1] and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost .
MediaFetcher.com is a fake news website generator. It has various templates for creating false articles about celebrities of a user's choice. Often users miss the disclaimer at the bottom of the page, before re-sharing. The website has prompted many readers to speculate about the deaths of various celebrities.
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] [9] A Folha Brasil.
The term "fake news" has been weaponized with the goal of undermining public trust in news media. [157] President Donald Trump seized on the term "fake news" [163] [164] as a way of denigrating any story or outlet critical of him, even appearing to claim to have invented the term [165] and handing out so-called "Fake News Awards" in 2017. [166]
Some fake news websites use website spoofing, structured to make visitors believe they are visiting trusted sources like ABC News or MSNBC. Fake news maintained a presence on the internet and in tabloid journalism in the years prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American website founded in 2015 by Dave M. Van Zandt. [1] It considers four main categories and multiple subcategories in assessing the "political bias" and "factual reporting" of media outlets, [2] [3] relying on a self-described "combination of objective measures and subjective analysis".