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An August 2019 internal Facebook study found that Breitbart News was the least trusted news source, and also ranked as low-quality, in the sources it looked at across the U.S. and Great Britain. [82] Breitbart News has published several articles accusing the English Wikipedia of having a left-wing and liberal bias.
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.
Fake news websites played a large part in the online news community during the election, reinforced by extreme exposure on Facebook and Google. [35] Approximately 115 pro-Trump fake stories were shared on Facebook a total of 30 million times, and 41 pro-Clinton fake stories shared a total of 7.6 million times.
During a segment on Friday night's Overtime With Bill Maher, the aftershow to Real Time, the host asked Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow to define fake news. As Marlow began to define it, he ...
A 2019 study in the journal Science, which examined dissemination of fake news articles on Facebook in the 2016 election, found that sharing of fake news articles on Facebook was "relatively rare", conservatives were more likely than liberals or moderates to share fake news, and there is a "strong age effect", whereby individuals over 65 are ...
Breitbart News. Alexander Mason Marlow (born January 24, 1986) is an American media executive who is currently the editor-in-chief of Breitbart News. [2] [3] Marlow began his career as Andrew Breitbart 's editorial assistant, a position which he held for four years. He was hired in 2008 as Breitbart 's inaugural managing editor and served as ...
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]
In 2007, Breitbart launched a video blog, Breitbart.tv. [28] In February 2011, Breitbart and one of his editors Larry O'Connor were sued for defamation by Shirley Sherrod, who had been fired after Breitbart posted a video of a speech given by Sherrod. The video had been selectively edited to suggest that she had purposely discriminated against ...