padremike wrote:
https://www.wnd.com/2020/02/dems-triggered-prayer-storm-legislature
Your news source is wanting in the truth department.
WorldNetDaily
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WorldNetDaily
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Type of site
Online news site
Available in English
Founded 1997; 23 years ago
Owners WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
Founder(s) Joseph Farah
Editor Joseph Farah
Website WND.com
WorldNetDaily (WND) is an American news and opinion website and online news aggregator which has been described as "fringe" and far right[5] as well as politically conservative.[6] The website is known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories.[14]
The site was founded in May 1997 by Joseph Farah, who is its current editor-in-chief and CEO.[15][deprecated source] The website publishes news, editorials, and opinion columns, while also aggregating content from other publications.
History
In 1997 Joseph Farah created the news website WorldNetDaily[15] as a division of the Western Journalism Center. It was subsequently spun off in 1999 as a for-profit organization[16][deprecated source] with the backing of $4.5 million from investors, Farah owning a majority of the stock. The site describes itself as "an independent news company dedicated to uncompromising journalism".[15] In 1999, WorldNetDaily.com, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware[16] with offices in Cave Junction, Oregon.[17]
The website gained notoriety for stoking false "birther" conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama.[18]
In 2018, Farah wrote about WorldNetDaily's financial problems, saying it faced an "existential threat."[18] Farah ceased contributing to the site after his March 12, 2019, column; the site announced a few weeks later that he had suffered a major stroke.[18] In April 2019, The Washington Post reported that WorldNetDaily suffered from declining revenue and diminishing readership.[18] Farah blamed the website's financial woes on what he claimed was suppression by powerful technology companies.[18]
Content
The WND website provides news, editorials, letters to the editor, forums, videos and conducts a daily poll. Its CEO Joseph Farah has said that WND provides "the broadest spectrum of opinion anywhere in the news business", but acknowledges "some misinformation by columnists".[19] WND's content is predominantly conservative.[6][20] Besides providing articles written by its own staff, the site links to news from other publications.
Notable staff includes Jerusalem Bureau Chief Aaron Klein, former White House correspondent Lester Kinsolving, and staff writer Jerome Corsi. Its commentary pages feature editorials by the site's founder Joseph Farah, as well as by commentators including 2016 Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson, Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Chuck Norris, Walter E. Williams, Ilana Mercer, Bill Press, and Nat Hentoff.[21][deprecated source]
Controversies
The Washington Post describes WND's political lean as alt-right or far-right.[22][7][10][23] This view is shared by Michael Massing of the Columbia Journalism Review.[24] The Southern Poverty Law Center labels WorldNetDaily as an antigovernment extremist group.[25]
Clark Jones libel lawsuit (2000โ2008)
On September 20, 2000, WND published an article[26][deprecated source] saying that Clark Jones, a Savannah, Tennessee car dealer, a fund-raiser for then-Vice President Al Gore in his presidential campaign, had interfered with a criminal investigation, had been a "subject" of a criminal investigation, and was listed on law enforcement computers as a "dope dealer." It implied that he had ties to others involved in alleged criminal activity. The authors later put forward the theory that the publication of this article, as well as other WND articles that were critical of Gore, contributed significantly to Gore losing his home state of Tennessee that November.[27][deprecated source]
In 2001, Clark Jones filed a lawsuit against WND; the reporters, Charles C. Thompson II and Tony Hays; the Center for Public Integrity, which had underwritten Thompson and Hays' reporting on the article and related ones; and various Tennessee publications and broadcasters whom he accused of repeating the claim, arguing these entities had committed libel and defamation.[28][29] The lawsuit was scheduled to go to trial in March 2008;[30][deprecated source] but, on February 13, 2008, WND announced that a confidential out-of-court settlement had been reached with Jones.[31][deprecated source] A settlement statement jointly drafted by all parties in the lawsuit stated that a Freedom of Information Act request showed that the allegations had been false, and that WND had misquoted sources.[31]