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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 September 2024. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. For satirical news, see List of satirical news websites. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Fake news websites are those ...
MediaFetcher.com is a fake news website generator. It has various templates for creating false articles about celebrities of a user's choice. Often users miss the disclaimer at the bottom of the page, before re-sharing. The website has prompted many readers to speculate about the deaths of various celebrities. [68] [69]
Much of the fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential election season was traced to adolescents in North Macedonia, [20] [92] specifically Veles. It is a town of 50,000 in the middle of the country, with high unemployment, where the average wage is $4,800. [93] The income from fake news was characterized by NBC News as a gold rush. [93]
Comprobado (hosted by Maldita.es). [138] Miniver.org: the first fact-checking web in Spain, launched in 2017, with the purpose of debunking fake news. Accredited by Google as fact-checking organization. [139] Newtral: Spanish fact-checking organization founded by journalist Ana Pastor from LaSexta.
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American website founded in 2015 by Dave M. Van Zandt. [1] It considers four main categories and multiple subcategories in assessing the "political bias" and "factual reporting" of media outlets, [2] [3] relying on a self-described "combination of objective measures and subjective analysis".
e. In journalism, yellow journalism and the yellow press are American newspapers that use eye-catching headlines and sensationalized exaggerations for increased sales. The English term is chiefly used in the US. In the United Kingdom, a similar term is tabloid journalism. Other languages, e.g. Russian (Жёлтая пресса zhyoltaya pressa ...
In some definitions, fake news includes satirical articles misinterpreted as genuine, and articles that employ sensationalist or clickbait headlines that are not supported in the text. [1] Because of this diversity of types of false news, researchers are beginning to favour information disorder as a more neutral and informative term.
None. Launched. March 6, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-03-06) [4] Current status. Active. InfoWars is an American far-right [2] conspiracy theory [3] and fake news website [1] owned by Alex Jones. [36][37] It was founded in 1999, and operates under Free Speech Systems LLC. [38] Talk shows and other content for the site are created primarily in ...