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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]
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 increase its ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
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.
This is a list of miscellaneous fake news websites that don't fit into any of the other fake news website lists such as these lists of: fake news website campaigns by individuals, corporate disinformation website campaigns, fraudulent fact-checking websites, fake news websites based on generative AI, hate group-sponsored fake news websites,
Comprobado (hosted by Maldita.es). [138] Miniver.org: the first fact-checking web in Spain, launched in 2017, with the purpose of debunking fake news. Accredited by Google as fact-checking organization. [139] Newtral: Spanish fact-checking organization founded by journalist Ana Pastor from LaSexta.
Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news. [6][12] The term as it developed in 2017 is a neologism (a new or re-purposed expression that is entering the language, driven by culture or technology changes). [13]