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NewsPunch
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NewsPunch
Logo of NewsPunch
Type of site
Fake news[1]
Politics
Available in English
Founder(s)
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Sinclair Treadway
URL
newspunch.com
Launched 2014
Current status Active
Logo of Your News Wire
Logo of Your News Wire
NewsPunch is a Los Angeles-based fake news website known for spreading conspiracy theories, political misinformation, and hoaxes.[1] Originally named Your News Wire,[5][11][12] it was founded in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway.[3][6][13] In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch, and began redirecting yournewswire.com traffic to newspunch.com.[11] Your News Wire was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in NewsPunch.[14]
A 2017 BuzzFeed News 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:
Stories pushing the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.[18][19] NewsPunch was one of the first sites to propagate the conspiracy theory, publishing a falsified story that was later used as a basis for Pizzagate's viral spread among the alt-right.[20]
Claims that the 2017 Las Vegas shootings and Manchester Arena bombings were false flags.[21][22]
Anti-vaccination hoaxes alleging that Bill Gates refused to vaccinate his children[23] and "admitted that vaccinations are designed so that governments can depopulate the world".[24]
Claims that Hillary Clinton's popular vote victory in the 2016 United States Presidential election was the result of voter fraud.[25]
Allegations that Clinton was responsible for Anthony Bourdain's suicide.[26]
False claims that Justin Trudeau was the love child of Fidel Castro.[11]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to search
NewsPunch
Logo of NewsPunch
Type of site
Fake news[1]
Politics
Available in English
Founder(s)
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Sinclair Treadway
URL
newspunch.com
Launched 2014
Current status Active
Logo of Your News Wire
Logo of Your News Wire
NewsPunch is a Los Angeles-based fake news website known for spreading conspiracy theories, political misinformation, and hoaxes.[1] Originally named Your News Wire,[5][11][12] it was founded in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway.[3][6][13] In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch, and began redirecting yournewswire.com traffic to newspunch.com.[11] Your News Wire was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in NewsPunch.[14]
A 2017 BuzzFeed News 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:
Stories pushing the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.[18][19] NewsPunch was one of the first sites to propagate the conspiracy theory, publishing a falsified story that was later used as a basis for Pizzagate's viral spread among the alt-right.[20]
Claims that the 2017 Las Vegas shootings and Manchester Arena bombings were false flags.[21][22]
Anti-vaccination hoaxes alleging that Bill Gates refused to vaccinate his children[23] and "admitted that vaccinations are designed so that governments can depopulate the world".[24]
Claims that Hillary Clinton's popular vote victory in the 2016 United States Presidential election was the result of voter fraud.[25]
Allegations that Clinton was responsible for Anthony Bourdain's suicide.[26]
False claims that Justin Trudeau was the love child of Fidel Castro.[11]
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I worry about some of you. - JayHoaxH8r MU - 8/4 16:04:12