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''MintPress News'' (''MPN'') is an American
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news website founded and edited by Mnar Adley (née, Muhawesh) which was launched in January 2012. It covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues. Editorially, ''MintPress News'' supports Syrian president
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, and the governments of
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,
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, and
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. It opposes the governments of
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and
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, and reports geopolitical events from an anti-Western perspective. In one contentious article, ''MintPress News'' falsely asserted that the
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in
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
was perpetrated by
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rather than by the
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. Described as a conspiratorial website, ''MintPress News'' publishes
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and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, according to researchers at
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and others. ''MintPress News'' was a major media domain that spread disinformation about the
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, a Syrian volunteer organization. The site has been accused of regularly publishing pro-
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. The source of ''MintPress News''s funding remains unknown. ''MintPress News'' is headquartered in
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,
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.


History and funding

''MintPress News'' was founded by Mnar Muhawesh (now Adley), a broadcast journalism graduate of
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. She began her career as an intern at
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television station
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and as a freelance journalist. After posting her own work on a blog, in 2011 she decided to launch her own news site. Muhawesh said she believed that "our media has failed us very miserably" and that "We are in a crucial time in American history where most Americans don't know what's going on in the world around them." She spoke of her aspirations for ''MintPress'', citing uninformed public debates around issues like
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's nuclear capabilities, or intervention in
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. ''MintPress News'' said it was a for-profit "regular news organization," with an initial business plan where advertising revenues would exceed costs after three years. ''MintPress''s anonymous investors were originally intended to fund ''MintPress'' operations until 2015. The editor had investors, who Muhawesh claimed were "retired businesspeople", but she would not name them, a situation '' MinnPost'' said was "unfortunate for a journalism operation fighting alongside people seeking transparency. The site's 'About Us' page is similarly skinny." In a 2013 email to ''
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'', Muhawesh said she restructured the business plan: "''MintPress'' was originally funded by angel investors when I was first putting the company together over a year ago, but that route fell through last year as I restructured the business plan." She added: "I am the sole investor of ''MintPress''." ''MintPress News''' offices closed in 2014. Since then, the website encourages donations from the public via Patreon and through
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. Muhawesh in 2015 said her funding comes "from donations, sponsorships, grants and ad revenue," and that ''MintPress'' was opposed to U.S. intervention in foreign wars. Soon afterward, Brian Lambert of ''MinnPost'' wrote an article following up on Burke's challenge to find out where ''MintPress''s money came from. He reported that emails to them went unanswered, their phone was disconnected, and the original office address in Plymouth, Minnesota, "haven't been valid in well over a year". While ''MintPress'' listed 20 of its writers, Lambert wrote it did not indicate where the money was "coming from to pay any of these people". ''MintPress News'' received $10,000 in grants from the
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. In Spring 2022, ''Jacobin'' magazine reported that ''MintPress News'' was suspended from PayPal, citing an unspecified "potential risk" with the account. Adley told ''Jacobin'' that GoFundMe had previously terminated two ''MintPress News'' fundraisers, saying they had violated the site's terms of service. Around the same time,
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reported that Google AdSense informed publishers, including ''MintPress News'', that, "Due to the
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, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war." According to Scheer, GoFundMe included "any pieces that question the
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narrative on Ukraine into the content it describes".


Content

The initial release of ''MintPress News'' was described by ''MinnPost'' as a "typical left-of-center" web outlet that reported on matters such as
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and "bizarre" comments by Republican candidates. Additionally, the site's content had a clear focus on Israel and how "' American imperialism' was abetting the humiliation and slaughter of innocent
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". The site publishes disinformation and coded antisemitic conspiracy theories, including ones on George Soros. ''MintPress News'' has reposted content from Russian
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outlets RT and
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, and is listed as a "partner" of PeaceData, a Russian
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run by the Internet Research Agency. A report from
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includes ''MintPress News'' as part of the " Russian web of disinformation," and the site has published fake authors attributed to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency. ''MintPress News'' defended Russia's invasion of Crimea, claiming Ukraine's post-
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government was "illegitimate." The site ran numerous stories sympathetic to Syrian president
Bashar al-Assad Bashar Hafez al-Assad, ', Levantine pronunciation: ; (, born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the 19th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the ...
. The false information published by ''MintPress News'' attracts communities, including some
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users, that support Assad and the
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.


Coverage of the Ghouta chemical attacks

On August 29, 2013, an unverified ''MintPress'' article attributed to Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh said that
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and local residents in
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, Syria alleged that rebels were responsible for the chemical weapons attack on August 21. The story alleged that Saudi Arabia had supplied the rebels with chemical weapons, which the rebels then accidentally set off; ''
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'' magazine described it as one of the most "crazy" conspiracy theories about chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
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found no evidence for the claims. On September 20, the
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published a statement from Gavlak saying that "despite my repeated requests, made directly and through legal counsel, they have not been willing to issue a retraction stating that I was not the author. Yahya Ababneh is the sole reporter and author of the ''Mint Press News'' piece." Gavlak also said the report had not been verified. Gavlak also told the ''
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'' that "There was no fact finding or reporting by me for the piece. I did not travel to Syria, so I cannot corroborate babneh'saccount" and that Muhawesh refused to remove her name from the byline because "this is an existential issue for MintPress and an issue of credibility as this will appear as though we are lying." ''MintPress'' added an editor's note at the top of the article stating Ababneh was the sole reporter on the ground in Syria, while Gavlak assisted in researching and writing the article. It said that Gavlak was a ''MintPress News'' correspondent who had freelanced for the
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(AP) in Jordan for a decade. A note at the bottom of the story says: "Some information in this article could not be independently verified. ''Mint Press News'' will continue to provide further information and updates." The Russian Foreign Ministry cited the article in future statements. On September 21, 2013, ''MintPress'' published a statement by Muhawesh saying soon after the article was published, Gavlak retracted her involvement due to pressure from third parties, which Gavlak believed was prompted by Prince Bandar. The statement also claimed that Abadneh was being threatened by
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officials. Following the publication of the article, Gavlak stated she has been suspended from the AP. The story continues to be cited by conspiracy websites and supporters of the Assad regime. When asked about the ''MintPress News'' story,
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, the chief U.N. weapons inspector in Syria remarked, "They are famous for
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stories!"


Claims of Pro-Assad coverage

In October 2015, the Minnesota ''
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'' published a citizen op-ed by Terry Burke, an activist for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria, in which she accused ''MintPress News'' and other "alternative 'news' organizations" of "never publish ngthe international human rights organizations' reports about the regime's crimes. Instead, they post interviews with Assad, polls that claim most Syrians support him, articles on rebel or ISIL abuses, and stories that blame the U.S. for Syria's uprising." ''
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'' in 2013 described the site as having "an agenda that lines up, from its sympathy with the Syrian regime to its hostility to Sunni Saudi Arabia, with that of the Islamic Republic of Iran." According to '' Bellingcat'', ''MintPress News'' has received the
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Award (organized by the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees), a financial award of an unknown amount, along with other websites which "routinely promote pro-Assad conspiracy theories".


Arbaeen pilgrimage claim

In November 2016, a ''MintPress News'' article entitled "Media Blackout As Millions Of Muslims March Against ISIS In Iraq" became a top trending story on
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, which prompted criticism that the article was misleading. ''BuzzFeed News'' countered, "This week has seen millions of Shiite Muslims participate in Arbaeen, one of the world's largest pilgrimages, in Iraq. But they are not specifically marching against ISIL, nor has there been a 'media blackout.'" ''BuzzFeed News'' said the article had been sourced from ''American Herald Tribune'', a website edited by Anthony Hall, a
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and Sandy Hook shooting conspiracy theorist suspended from his job as a professor at the
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on charges of antisemitism. Snopes described the claims in the ''MintPress'' article as inaccurate: "The pilgrimage was not a massive protest against ISIS, nor did a "media blackout" prevent news agencies from covering the event." ''MintPress'' stood by its story.


Guarani Aquifer

In 2018, ''MintPress News'' falsely claimed that
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and
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were privatising the
Guarani Aquifer The Guarani Aquifer, located beneath the surface of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, is the second largest known aquifer system in the world and is an important source of fresh water. Named after the Guarani people, it covers , with a v ...
, a major South American water reserve. The site falsely claimed that the alleged deal was being negotiated by Brazilian president
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and has reached an "advanced" stage. The site offered no evidence to support their claims and only provided vague statements. Experts, like law professor
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, noted that it would be physically impossible for a private company to control the aquifer due to its large size. Coca-Cola and Nestlé also refuted the allegations.


White Helmets

A study led by
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at the
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found that ''MintPress News'' was part of a core cluster of websites amplifying disinformation about the
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, a volunteer organization formed during Syrian Civil War. The White Helmets has been the target of disinformation campaigns perpetrated by pro-Assad and pro-Russian groups. Such disinformation increased dramatically following the
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. Many of
Vanessa Beeley Vanessa Beeley (born 1963/1964Bachner, Michael (August 22, 2018"UK Labour MP slammed for praising anti-Semitic pro-Assad conspiracist". ''The Times of Israel''.) is a British activist and blogger known for sharing conspiracy theories and disinfor ...
's conspiracy theories about the White Helmets appeared on ''MintPress News.''


Nicaragua

In 2018, during the
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, ''MintPress'' ''News'' published a "lengthy, insinuation-infused attack" on the photojournalist Carl David Goette-Luciak, a freelance reporter for NPR and ''
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'', implying he was anti-regime. According to journalist Joshua Collins, ''MintPress'' accompanied the story, entitled "How an American Anthropologist Tied to US Regime-Change Proxies Became the MSM's Man in Nicaragua", with a photo of Luciak beside an armed soldier labelled as an opposition figure, when it was in fact a government-supporting Sandinista. The false story nevertheless went viral, Luciak went into hiding, was eventually captured by state forces, threatened with torture and deported from the country.


Frequent contributors and partners

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,
Vanessa Beeley Vanessa Beeley (born 1963/1964Bachner, Michael (August 22, 2018"UK Labour MP slammed for praising anti-Semitic pro-Assad conspiracist". ''The Times of Israel''.) is a British activist and blogger known for sharing conspiracy theories and disinfor ...
, Max Blumenthal, Miko Peled,
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, and the cartoonist
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are listed as regular contributors to the website. ''MintPress News'' frequently partners with the outlets
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,
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, Media Roots Radio, ShadowProof, ''
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'', '' Truthout'', '' CommonDreams'', and Antiwar.com. In September 2013, Antiwar.com apologized for linking to and reprinting a ''MintPress News'' story that Syrian rebels were responsible for the Ghouta sarin attacks of 2013.


See also

* ''
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''


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