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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.
The Daily Wire is an American conservative news website and media company founded in 2015 by political commentator Ben Shapiro and film director Jeremy Boreing. [ 2][ 3] The company is a major publisher on Facebook, [ 4][ 5][ 6] and produces podcasts such as The Ben Shapiro Show. [ 3] The Daily Wire has also produced various films and video series.
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 ...
Judicial Watch was founded in 1994 by attorney and right-wing activist Larry Klayman. Before leaving the organization in 2003, Klayman hired Tom Fitton, who became president of the organization. In October 2016, The New York Times wrote: "Judicial Watch's strategy is simple: Carpet-bomb the federal courts with Freedom of Information Act lawsuits."
In December Facebook and Twitter disabled a global network of 900 pages, groups and accounts sending pro-Trump messages. The fake news accounts managed to avoid detection as being inauthentic, and they used photos generated with the aid of artificial intelligence. The campaign was based in the U.S. and Vietnam.
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 ...