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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 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]
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". [ 4 ][ 5 ]
Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom, through its Community Newspaper Holdings subsidiary, also owned multiple newspapers in small and medium-sized markets ...
Real Raw News was created in April 2020 by a person operating under the pseudonym of "Michael Baxter". [1] The website started publishing articles that December. [1] [3]In 2021, PolitiFact found that Baxter previously ran at least three other websites and associated YouTube channels that promoted conspiracy theories about topics such as alien visitations and the fictional planet Nibiru.
Reddit's logo consists of a time-traveling alien named Snoo and the company name stylized as "reddit". The alien has an oval head, pom-pom ears, and an antenna. [166] Its colors are black, white, and orange-red. [166] The mascot was created in 2005 while company co-founder Alexis Ohanian was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. [167]
AllSides Technologies Inc. is an American company that estimates the perceived political bias of content on online written news outlets. AllSides presents different versions of similar news stories from sources it rates as being on the political right, left, and center, with a mission to show readers news outside their filter bubble and expose media bias.
Now, the company is expanding the feature to more than 35 countries including Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and countries throughout Latin America, Reddit said in a blog post.