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Your News Wire
''NewsPunch'' is a Los Angeles-based fake news website. Originally named ''Your News Wire'', it was founded in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and his husband Sinclair Treadway. In November 2018, it rebranded itself as ''NewsPunch''. ''Your News Wire'' was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in ''NewsPunch''. A 2017 ''BuzzFeed'' report identified ''NewsPunch'' as being the second-largest source of popular fake stories spread on Facebook that year, and a June 2018 Poynter analysis identified ''NewsPunch'' as being debunked over 80 times in 2017 and 2018 by Poynter-accredited factcheckers such as Snopes, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and the Associated Press. The European Union's East StratCom Task Force has criticized ''NewsPunch'' for spreading Russian propaganda, a charge Adl-Tabatabai denies. Regular contributors to ''NewsPunch'' include Adl-Tabatabai, a former BBC and MTV employee from London previously an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fake News
Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue.Schlesinger, Robert (April 14, 2017)"Fake news in reality" '' U.S. News & World Report''. Although false news has always been spread throughout history, the term "fake news" was first used in the 1890s when sensational reports in newspapers were common."The real story of 'fake news': The term seems to have emerged around the end of the 19th century" . Retrieved October 13, 2017. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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