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Fake news websites target United States audiences by using disinformation to create or inflame controversial topics such as the 2016 election. [1] [2] Most fake news websites target readers by impersonating or pretending to be real news organizations, which can lead to legitimate news organizations further spreading their message. [3] Most notable in the media are the many websites that made ...
^ Earl, Jennifer (November 14, 2016). "Google's top search result for "final election numbers" leads to fake news site/". CBS News. Archived from the original on May 1, 2020. Retrieved April 16, 2020. a fake news blog called '70news,' which falsely claimed that Trump had won both the popular vote and the Electoral College. ...
The Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US$10,000 (equivalent to $183,120 in 2023) [6] from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the New-York Evening Post, [9] a broadsheet. Hamilton's co-investors included other New York members of the Federalist Party, including Robert Troup and Oliver Wolcott [10] who were dismayed by the election of Thomas Jefferson as U.S. president ...
The Gateway Pundit was founded prior to the 2004 United States presidential election, [42] according to its founder, Jim Hoft, to "speak the truth" and to "expose the wickedness of the left". [43] The website's name makes reference to the Gateway Arch in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, where Hoft resided as of February 2018. [44] He operates the site from Ellisville, a western suburb. [45]
Fake news maintained a presence on the internet and in tabloid journalism in the years prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. [31] Before the election campaign involving Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, fake news had not impacted the election process and subsequent events to such a high degree. [31] Subsequent to the 2016 election, the issue of fake news turned into a political weapon ...
On October 25, 2023, two unnamed students placed a mock front page on around 300 copies of the school's newspaper, The Daily Northwestern.
The practice of giving false news for electioneering purposes, in this country, originated with the "National" Intelligencer. Its servile co-workers abroad, of the [Henry] Clay school of politics, have adopted it, and the confident tone in which they now utter falsehoods, proves that the opposition rest their hopes of success upon the gullibility of their readers. . . . Those Siamese twins ...
Journalism historian W. Joseph Campbell described yellow press newspapers as having daily multi-column front-page headlines covering a variety of topics, such as sports and scandal, using bold layouts (with large illustrations and perhaps color), heavy reliance on unnamed sources, and unabashed self-promotion. The term was extensively used to describe two major New York City newspapers around ...