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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.
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.
The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture. Founded in 2008, the website is owned by IAC Inc. [ 2] It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid " by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. [ 3]
The Daily Beast reported on the popularity of Chacon's fictions being reported as if it were factual and noted pro-Trump message boards and YouTube videos routinely believed them. [64] In a follow-up piece Chacon wrote as a contributor for The Daily Beast after the 2016 U.S. election, he concluded those most susceptible to fake news were ...
One America News Network (OANN), also known as One America News (OAN), is a far-right, [17] pro-Trump [26] cable channel founded by Robert Herring Sr. and owned by Herring Networks, Inc., that launched on July 4, 2013. [31] The network is headquartered in San Diego, California, and operates news bureaus in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
Noah Shachtman is an American journalist and musician. He was the editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone. [1] From 2018 to 2021, he served as the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. [2] He previously was the executive editor of the site. [3] A former non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, he also worked as executive editor for News at ...
Matt K. Lewis. Matt K. Lewis (born 1974/1975) is an American conservative political writer, blogger, podcaster, and columnist for The Daily Beast, formerly with The Daily Caller, and has written for The Week. [ 2] He has also appeared on CNN and MSNBC as a political commentator. [ 2]
A 2012 study by Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu of the Harvard Business School examined a sample of 28,382 articles related to U.S. politics as of January 2011, measuring their degree of bias on a "slant index" based on a method developed by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro in 2010, to measure bias in newspaper media. [10]