NewsPunch

NewsPunch (currently branded as ThePeoplesVoice(.tv)) is a Los Angeles-based fake news website.[1] Originally named Your News Wire,[5][11][12] it was founded in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and his husband Sinclair Treadway.[3][6][13] In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch.[11] Your News Wire was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in NewsPunch.[14]

NewsPunch
Logo of NewsPunch
Type of site
Available inEnglish
Founder(s)
  • Sean Adl-Tabatabai
  • Sinclair Treadway
URL
Launched2014
Current statusActive

Logo of Your News Wire
Logo of Your News Wire

A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as being the second-largest source of popular fake stories spread on Facebook that year,[6] 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.[7]

The European Union's East StratCom Task Force has criticized NewsPunch for spreading Russian propaganda, a charge Adl-Tabatabai denies.[3]

Regular contributors to NewsPunch include Adl-Tabatabai, a former BBC and MTV employee from London previously an employee of conspiracy theorist David Icke,[15] Adl-Tabatabai's mother Carol Adl, an alternative health practitioner, and Baxter Dmitry, who had previously been posing as an unrelated Latvian man using a stolen profile photo.[16][17]

Fake news stories

NewsPunch has published false stories, including:

See also

References

  1. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
  2. Brown, Étienne (October 2, 2018). "Propaganda, Misinformation, and the Epistemic Value of Democracy". Critical Review. Routledge. 30 (3–4): 194–218. doi:10.1080/08913811.2018.1575007. S2CID 151051037.
  3. Boswell, Josh (2017). "Mother churns out stories for master of fake news". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  4. "Don't get fooled by these fake news sites". CBS News. February 10, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  5. "Websites that Post Fake and Satirical Stories - FactCheck.org". FactCheck.org. July 6, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
  6. "These Are 50 Of The Biggest Fake News Hits On Facebook In 2017". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  7. "Fact-checkers have debunked this fake news site 80 times. It's still publishing on Facebook". Poynter. July 20, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  8. "YourNewsWire.com's file". @politifact. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  9. "No evidence Lisa Page blamed DNC hack on Chinese". @politifact. Retrieved August 27, 2018. ...Your News Wire which frequently publishes fake news...
  10. "FACT CHECK: Did Melania Trump Ban White House Staff from Taking Flu Shot?". Snopes.com. Retrieved August 27, 2018. ...a consistent purveyor of fake news and political disinformation, YourNewsWIre[sic]...
  11. Frier, Sarah (November 4, 2018). "Facebook Tamped Down on Hoax Sites, But Polarization Thrives". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
  12. "FACT CHECK: Did a Starbucks Executive Say That 'White Men Are the Root of All Evil'?". Snopes.com. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
  13. "L.A. Alt-Media Agitator (Not Breitbart) Clashes With Google, Snopes". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
  14. Thalen, Mikael (November 23, 2020). "Infamous conspiracy site returns to push hoax that George Soros was arrested for election fraud". The Daily Dot. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  15. Boswell, Josh (January 29, 2017). "Mother churns out stories for master of fake news". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved May 24, 2019. After working as a television producer for the BBC and MTV, he took a job helping to run the conspiracy theory site of David Icke, a former BBC sports presenter who claims the world is secretly run by alien reptiles in disguise.
  16. Boswell, Josh (2017). "Mother churns out stories for master of fake news". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved September 5, 2018. Another prolific writer on the site goes by the name of Baxter Dmitry. The photograph next to the author's name was in fact that of a Latvian computer programmer, who told The Sunday Times he was not Dmitry and his identity had been stolen.
  17. "Sean Adl-Tabatabai on being in the eye of the 'fake news' storm | London Evening Standard". August 16, 2018. Archived from the original on August 16, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  18. "FBI: Pizzagate Arrests 'Imminent' In Washington Pedophile Ring Bust". Your News Wire (archived by archive.is). February 4, 2017. Archived from the original on February 4, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  19. "FBI Insider: Clinton Emails Linked To Political Pedophile Sex Ring". Your News Wire (archived by archive.is). March 9, 2018. Archived from the original on March 9, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  20. "How The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Behind "Pizzagate" Was Spread". BuzzFeed. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  21. "Debunking hoaxes, fake news about the Las Vegas massacre". PolitiFact. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  22. "FACT CHECK: Was the Manchester Terror Attack a 'False Flag'?". Snopes.com. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  23. "Website peddles false claim about Bill Gates, vaccinations". @politifact. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  24. "FACT CHECK: Did Bill Gates Admit Vaccinations Are Designed So Governments Can Depopulate the World?". Snopes.com. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  25. "FACT CHECK: Did a Study Determine 25 Million Fraudulent Votes Were Cast for Hillary Clinton?". Snopes.com. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  26. McCarthy, Bill (June 12, 2018). "Fake news faults Clintons for Bourdain's death". PolitiFact. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  27. Emery, David (June 11, 2018). "Was Anthony Bourdain Killed by Clinton Operatives?". Snopes. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  28. Roy, Shreyashi (October 18, 2022). "False: WEF admitted that COVID-19 lockdowns were a test for implementing social-credit schemes". Logically. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
  29. "Fact Check-World Economic Forum did not call for decriminalizing pedophilia". Reuters. January 9, 2023. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
  30. Kulsum (March 21, 2023). "False: World Economic Forum wants America to implement 'one-child policy' for white families". Logically. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
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