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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.
Fake news websites deliberately publish hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation to drive web traffic inflamed by social media. [8] [9] [10] These sites are distinguished from news satire as fake news articles are usually fabricated to deliberately mislead readers, either for profit or more ambiguous reasons, such as disinformation campaigns.
The best-known example is The Onion, the online version of which started in 1996. [1] These sites are not to be confused with fake news websites, which deliberately publish hoaxes in an attempt to profit from gullible readers.
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.
worldnewsdailyreport.com. Launched. November 2013. World News Daily Report (WNDR) was a satirical fake news website [3][4] purporting to be an American Jewish Zionist newspaper based in Tel Aviv and dedicated to covering biblical archeology news and other mysteries around the globe. [5]
The Palmer Report is an American liberal [2] fake news website, [3] founded in 2016 by Bill Palmer. [4] It is known for making unsubstantiated or false claims, [5] producing hyperpartisan content, [6] and publishing conspiracy theories, [7][8] especially on matters relating to Donald Trump and Russia. [14]
Otherwise reliable news sources—for example, the website of a major news organization—that publish in a blog-style format for some or all of their content may be as reliable as if published in standard news article format (See also Wikipedia:Verifiability § Newspaper and magazine blogs).
RealTrueNews. The New York Times has defined "fake news" on the internet as fictitious articles deliberately fabricated to deceive readers, generally with the goal of profiting through clickbait. [31] PolitiFact has described fake news as fabricated content designed to fool readers and subsequently made viral through the Internet to crowds that ...