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May 4, 2024 · Mad World News routinely misrepresents facts and has a poor track record with fact checkers. It is also listed on the Politifact fake news list . Overall, we rate Mad World News Questionable based on extreme right-wing bias, failed fact checks, and a complete lack of transparency.
- National Report
- World News Daily Report
- Huzlers
- Empire News
- Stuppid
- News Examiner
- Newswatch28
- Naha Daily
- The Stately Harold
- Newsbuzzdaily
No list of shameless misinformation would be complete without a mention of National Report (and its omnipresent former lead writer, Paul Horner), as the site is (or was) perhaps the most prominent example of its genre. Among National Report‘s most widespread hoaxes were claims that notorious street artist Banksy was arrested and unmasked (as Paul H...
Straddling the line of fake news and the occasional seed of truth is World News Daily Report. By cobbling together misattributed stolen photographs (and often using extant, long-circulating rumors), World News Daily Report has published several viral claims often preying upon readers’ religious beliefs, including hoaxes about a newly-discovered eye...
While National Report and World News Daily Report often take advantage of politically, socially, or religiously divisive issues to drive outrage-based traffic, Huzlersemploys a markedly different approach to fake news hoaxes, often invoking the names of popular brands and restaurants in its quest to snare readers with gross-out stories. Among Huzle...
Empire News (spun off from what was initially a sports-related fake news site) is another outlet responsible for the propagation of fabricated claims that spread on sites like Facebook. Some of their stories are apolitical and simply compelling to readers, such as a claim the Netflix entertainment streaming service would be shuttering due to the ne...
Fake news sites often play to users’ existing beliefs to spread their claims, but Stuppid (a site that truly lives up to its name) is less focused in its contribution to the avalanche of fakery on the Internet. Efforts by Stuppid largely encompass morally offensive fabrications, such as a claim parents admitted to having sex in front of their kids ...
Paul Horner, the prolifically puerile online troll and ubiquitous fake news character (he inserts his name into all his articles) whose work previously appeared on the National Report fake news site, has since started the News Examiner. The News Examiner skirts Facebook’s crackdownon fake news sites by mixing real news and listicle items in with it...
Newswatch28 is a relative newcomer to the fake news world, bursting onto the scene in late April 2015 with a site that simulates a TV news web site and likewise skirts Facebook’s crackdown on fake news by mixing real news articles in with its completely made-up stories. The site’s “Quest” page unhelpfully informs readers that Newswatch28 presents “...
The Naha Daily appears to be defunct, but during that site’s brief lifespan from September 2014 to January 2015 it published several fake news pieces that continue to pop up regularly on social media and web sites — most notably an article claiming that fashion CEO Michael Korssaid he is tired of “pretending to like blacks.” That item gained enough...
The Stately Harold shouldn’t be fooling anyone, given the deliberate misspelling in its name, a front page filled with articles by “feminist Cassidy Boon” about such hard-hitting topics as “Redefining beauty: Why cankles are hot!” and an introduction from the Chief Editor that states “Hi! My nme is Clive Pebble. I have Dyslexia but my drem evre sen...
NewsBuzzDailyis pretty low-rent for a fake news site: it doesn’t display a logo or masthead on its pages, and it mainly traffics in lame, made-up, exclamation point-driven celebrity gossip items (e.g., “Lebron James Admits To Hair Transplant!!” and “Woman’s Lips Explode After Doing Kylie Jenner Challenge!!”) along with that lowest form of fake news...
Jul 2, 2020 · While Mad World News isn’t accused of this exact scammy behavior, it and the sites in its network are notorious for rewriting years-old news articles from other sources and passing them off...
Mar 2, 2020 · Caption. A new study co-authored by MIT Professor David Rand shows that labeling some news stories as false makes all other news stories seem more legitimate online. After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook began putting warning tags on news stories fact-checkers judged to be false.
Jan. 17, 2019 A widespread meme attributes some colorful criticisms of pro-gun-control lawmakers to the legend ...
Mar 24, 2022 · A few tell-tale signs of copypasta include: A lack of a verified source (or sources) from which the information was said to have originated. Warnings or notices on social media that include a call ...
Apr 18, 2018 · Facebook page Mad World News posted a meme on April 18, 2018 that claimed just that (archived here ), adding just this caption above the image: George Soros... Just 10 seconds of Googling revealed this particular image with the fake quote had been already debunked by Snopes in February 2018:
