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Reasoning: Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Lack of T***sparency, H**e Group
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 48/180

History

Founded in 2002, The Religion of Peace (TROP) is a website that reports on the negative aspect of Islam. According to The Religion of Peace about page they are “a pluralistic, non-partisan site concerned with Islam’s political and religious teachings according to its own texts. The purpose is to counter whitewashing and explain the threat that Islam truly poses to human dignity and freedom, as well as the violence and dysfunction that ensues as a direct consequence of this religion’s s*********t ideology.” The editor of TROP is Glen Roberts. We cannot find much information on Glen Roberts and suspect this may be a pseudonym.

Funded by / Ownership

The website does not clearly disclose ownership. Revenue is generated through advertising and donations.

Analysis / Bias

In review, The Religion of Peace promotes anti-Muslim propaganda through only posting negative information about Islam, such as crimes that may not be related to ones religion, such as this where they link to a Mixed factual source. On the homepage they keep a running count of terror attacks as well as people k**led by Muslims in what they call the Jihad Report. Along the right side of the page they publish curated news from a variety of sources. Some of these sources are on our questionable or conspiracy list such as Breitbart, Daily Mail, and MEMRI. However, for the most part most of the news links to credible right and left leaning sources such as the BBC and local newspapers, with the common theme of reporting negative news regarding Muslims. The Religion of Peace also sources Robert Spencer in articles, who is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s h**e list.

Overall, we rate The Religion of Peace as Questionable for having an extreme right wing bias, promotion of conspiracy/propaganda, lack of t***sparency and h**e group tendencies. (D. Van Zandt 9/15/2017) Updated (6/8/2019)

Portland mayor, police come under fire after right-wing writer attacked at protest
Updated Jun 30, 2019; Posted Jun 30, 2019


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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and the city’s police force have come under criticism after an attack on a conservative writer at dueling protests on Saturday.

Despite a large showing — left-wing protesters showed up in the hundreds while right-wing demonstrators numbered only a few dozen — Saturday featured only a few isolated flashpoints of violence. Still, one of them has garnered outsized attention with many in conservative circles condemning the mayor and police for perceived inaction in the face of violence.


Andy Ngo, a right-leaning provocateur with online news and opinion outlet Quillette, which identifies Ngo as an editor and photojournalist, went to the left-wing demonstration around noon on Saturday. Around 1:30 p.m., Ngo was attacked by a group of masked individuals who kicked, punched and threw milkshakes at him. He quickly left the scene and was admitted to a local hospital, he said on Twitter.


Andy Ngo
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@MrAndyNgo
In the ER.

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Pictures he posted after the attack show cuts and bruises to his face and neck as well as what appears to be the remnants of milkshake coating his hair and clothing. An Oregonian/OregonLive reporter caught the attack on video, though the video doesn’t show what precipitated the attack.

https://youtu.be/8WzMZxT-41k

Police were lined up along the perimeter of the park before the attack, but no one intervened to break up the fight. Late Saturday, police reported that three people had been arrested, including one for assault, but it was unclear if that person had anything to do with the attack on Ngo.

Within hours, the footage of Ngo’s beating had spread far and wide on the internet, racking up more than a million views on Twitter alone. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas weighed in, calling for a federal investigation into the actions of both the mayor and the police.



Ted Cruz
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To federal law enforcement: investigate & bring legal action against a Mayor who has, for political reasons, ordered his police officers to let citizens be attacked by d******c t*******ts. https://tinyurl.com/y2udrv5d https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1145212511966441473 …


Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Under Fire for Not Stopping A****a Protests
Wheeler's hands-off policy when it comes to A****a came under scrutiny on Saturday after journalist Ngo was assaulted by masked assailants.

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To law enforcement: find & prosecute these violent felons. https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1145212299914952704 …

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Neither the Portland Police Bureau nor a spokeswoman for Mayor Ted Wheeler immediately responded to requests for comment on Sunday, but there was no evidence Wheeler ordered the police to “let citizens be attacked.”

Richard Grenell, the United States ambassador to Germany, said he contacted the Justice Department to look into the matter.[/b]


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I have asked @TheJusticeDept to investigate this incident in Portland. I can’t just sit by and watch my friend be brutally attacked. https://twitter.com/richardgrenell/status/1145235245475741696 …

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@RichardGrenell
This was a pre-meditated attack on someone because intolerant radicals don’t like that Andy happens to be gay, Asian and conservative. They targeted him publicly before their protest. Mayor @tedwheeler knew this was coming. The people of Oregon must speak up today. https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1145116276605329408 …

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The attack was widely condemned by prominent national reporters as well, who viewed the incident as an affront to a free press.


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A****a regularly attacks journalists; it’s reprehensible https://twitter.com/calnbc/status/1028454081684234240?s=21 …https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1028764017542746112?s=21 …https://twitter.com/dejuanabc11/status/1028679231180550144?s=21 … https://twitter.com/Jimryan015/status/1145067852375851008 …

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First skirmish I’ve seen. Didn’t see how this started, but @MrAndyNgo got roughed up.

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Ngo’s writing, often labeled as opinion when published in mainstream outlets, has been controversial. An opinion piece he wrote for the Wall Street Journal last year about his experience visiting “London’s Muslim communities" was widely panned as r****t and Islamophobic. In a response to the op-ed published by Business Insider, London resident Alex Lockie called the piece “cowardly,” “race-baiting” and said Ngo “engaged in a weak attempt to skew facts and promote fear of Muslims.” An article he published in the New York Post questioned the veracity of reports of h**e crimes against gay and t*********r people that spread in Portland earlier this year. Ngo called the alleged h**e crimes “h**xes,” a move his critics say put vulnerable people in danger. Ngo is a regular fixture at protests in Portland, where he often livestreams the events.


On his Sunday morning show, CNN media reporter Brian Stelter said the attack on Ngo should be called out as “unacceptable,” even for critics of the conservative writer’s work.

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1145376298031697920

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Even @MrAndyNgo's critics should have no trouble saying this: The assault against him was unacceptable.

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While the demonstrations on Saturday did feature a few isolated flashes of intense violence — aside from Ngo’s attack, a number of protesters engaged in a bloody street brawl later in the day and police declared a civil disturbance before protesters dispersed — the event was still more peaceful than the r**ts that plagued downtown Portland last summer.

On Aug. 9, police fired flash bang grenades, pepper balls and other r**t-control devices at large crowds of left-wing protesters. One person was hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury and another with third-degree burns from crowd-control chemicals.

Saturday’s protest was declared a civil disturbance, but police stopped short of deeming it a r**t.


Assistant Police Chief Chris Davis said in a statement Saturday that the protests were difficult to handle due to their size and geographically-disparate nature, but did not comment on any of the violent incidents specifically.

"Demonstration events are very fluid in nature and the management of these events is complex," Davis said. "There are hundreds of peaceful free speech events in the City in a given year that do not result in violence. Unfortunately, today some community members and officers were injured. We are actively investigating these incidents to hold those responsible accountable."

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to k**l, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 696; Pub. L. 90–284, title I, § 103(a), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 75; Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7018(a), (b)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4396; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60006(a), title XXXII, §§ 320103(a), 320201(a), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1970, 2109, 2113, 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §§ 604(b)(14)(A), 607(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3507, 3511.)

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/philippines-islamic-state-murders-five-in-jihad-suicide-bombings-at-military-camp

Philippines: Islamic State murders five in jihad suicide bombings at military camp
Jun 30, 2019 11:02 am By Robert Spencer 16 Comments
It is illegitimate in Islamic theology for Muslims to be ruled by non-Muslims. Islam must dominate, and not be dominated. So the drive to create a Muslim homeland in the Philippines, and then to continue the jihad until the Philippines is entirely Islamic, cannot be ended by negotiations and concessions, contrary to the conventional wisdom.

“Islamic State claims bombing that k**led five on Jolo island in southern Philippines,” Agence France-Presse, June 29, 2019:

Police in the Philippines have boosted security in Manila following a bombing at a military camp in the country’s troubled south, an official said on Saturday.

Five people were k**led and 12 wounded in the attack on an army camp in Indanan town in Sulu province, 1,000km south of the capital, on Friday….

The military said the kidnap-for-ransom group and IS-affiliate Abu Sayyaf was probably behind the midday blast on the island of Jolo.

Islamic State claimed the bombing was the work of two suicide attackers, according to tweets from Rita Katz, the director of SITE Intelligence Group which monitors extremist activities worldwide.

The country is home to numerous armed groups, several of which are linked to the decades-old insurgency aiming to create a Muslim homeland in the Christian-majority nation’s deep south….

Three members of the military unit were k**led and nine others were wounded, while two civilians – a male tricycle driver and female street vendor – also died in the attack, said army spokesman Colonel Ramon Zagala….

Byron York warned Monday of the rising "toxicity" of the anti-Trump resistance movement, highlighting three troubling developments in recent days. In a Washington Examiner column, titled "Anti-Trump fever takes threatening turn," York points to two op-eds specifically in the New York Times and Washington Post that he characterized as "rationalizations for denying Trump supporters public accommodation and for doxxing career federal employees." Appearing on "America's Newsroom," York noted that the co-owner of a Virginia restaurant who refused to serve then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said she believes the "rules are changing" when it comes to businesses or their staffers expressing political opposition.

In the op-ed, Stephanie Wilkinson responded to an incident in which Eric Trump was spat on by an employee of a Chicago cocktail bar and said if Trump officials do not want to face such anger, "maybe [they] should consider dining at home." He also highlighted a weekend op-ed in the New York Times in which a London human rights professor effectively called on people to "doxx" Border Patrol agents, arguing such steps are needed to stop "mass atrocity" from occurring at the border. On top of that, York lamented the A****a attack on conservative journalist Andy Ngo as he covered a P***d B**s rally in Portland, Ore. (photo attached)

Video from the incident doesn't show what precipitated the attack or what followed it, but Ngo can be seen being kicked, punched, doused with a milkshake and sprayed with an unknown substance.

The so-called "milkshakes" reportedly contained quick-drying cement, pepper spray and raw eggs. "Shunning, shaming, doxxing, attacking. As the 2020 campaign reaches full speed, would it surprise anyone to see all of it increase? And all from people who congratulate themselves for standing against h**e. Perhaps our politics will cool down at some point in the future. But not now," York concluded.

By: David Montanaro

(He is an editor with Fox News.)

Reasoning: Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Some F**e News
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 45/180

History

Founded in July 2018 by Dean Garrison, DC Dirty Laundry is the sister site of the Questionable DC Clothesline. According to their about page: “In a country where free speech is in serious danger, we have decided to aggressively expand and fight, because the t***h can not die and the mainstream liberal media can not be allowed to write history according to their own flawed perception. WE BELIEVE IN GOD, FAMILY AND COUNTRY. IN THAT ORDER!”

Funded by / Ownership

DC Dirty Laundry is owned by Dean Garrison and funded through online advertising and an affiliate link to a store at Keep and Bear.

Analysis / Bias

In review, DC Dirty Laundry is an extreme right conspiracy and propaganda website. In fact, the stories published on this site make it difficult to believe this is not a satire site, however there isn’t a disclaimer, so we assume they are serious. For example, they promote the following conspiracies on the home page today:

“I Know Where All The Bodies Are Buried”: Clinton Foundation CFO Spills the Beans to FBI, IRS

Immigrant children being organ harvested in massive global organ trade racket that’s beginning to be exposed

BOMBSHELL: Evidence that Explosives took down WTC Buildings on 9/11 to go before Special Grand Jury

Leader of Clinton-Linked NXIVM Sex Cult “Had Sex With 15-Year-Old S***e,” Locked Woman In Room For 2 Years & Approved Of Incest

Outside of promoting right wing conspiracy theories they also publish anti-v*****e p***********e propaganda, which comes from the discredited Natural News. In general, the sources used for stories come other conspiracy websites such as ZeroHedge and the Free Thought Project.

Overall, we rate DC Dirty Laundry Questionable due to extreme right wing bias and promotion of propaganda and conspiracies. This source also publishes f**e news as evidenced from the above links, but they have not been fact checked by an IFCN fact checker as of yet. (D. Van Zandt 12/10/2018)

Oh, still resorting to that f**e news?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-01/fact-check-did-obama-detain-90000-children-border

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Its hard to even take you seriously when you just puppet information that is fed you by the MSM propaganda machine.

Where was your outrage when this was happening under Obama?

You only care now, obviously, because you l*****ts are using the children as political pawns...and that is truly repugnant.

By Jane C. Timm
Amid growing outrage over the "zero tolerance" immigration policy implemented by President Donald Trump's administration in April, the president and his allies have sought to downplay the practice of separating families who cross the border illegally as nothing new.

"This has been going on for 50 years — longer," Trump said on Wednesday, hours before signing an executive order to halt the policy he put in place. "This has been going on under President Obama, under President Bush, this has been going on for many many years. We are gonna see if we can solve it. This is not something that happened just now."



DHS Secretary falsely says only Congress can fix separation policy
JUNE 18, 201816:02
This is inaccurate — there was no widespread Obama-era policy of separating parents and children — but it's a common talking point for Republican commentators and members of the president's administration. Trump's policy, now temporarily halted, aimed to prosecute every single illegal border crossing, including asylum-seekers. The government separated children from their parents or legal guardians because the adults had been referred for prosecution for illegal entry into the United States.

"The Obama administration, the Bush administration all separated families," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told reporters at the White House on Monday. "They absolutely did. They did — their rate was less than ours, but they absolutely did do this. This is not new."

"This is a policy that is implemented under the Obama Administration," former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said on Fox News.

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, made a similar point on Fox News on Friday.

"You know what's ironic?" he said. "It's the same way Barack Obama did it."

Immigration advocates and former Obama administration officials say that's just not true.

The idea that this is simply a continuation of an Obama-era practice is "preposterous," said Denise Gilman, director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas Law School. "There were occasionally instances where you would find a separated family — maybe like one every six months to a year — and that was usually because there had been some actual individualized concern that there was a trafficking situation or that the parent wasn’t actually the parent."

Once custody concerns were resolved, "there was pretty immediately reunification," Gilman told NBC News. "There were not 2,000 kids in two months — it’s not the same universe," she added.

The Trump administration separated 1,995 children from 1,940 adults from April 19 to May 31, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, a period in which the "zero tolerance" policy was in effect.



Who's to blame for families being separated at the border?
JUNE 18, 201802:06
Jeh Johnson, who served as homeland security secretary under Obama, said he did not separate children and parents despite the enormous surges of unaccompanied minors and families that came across the border in 2014 fleeing Central American violence.

"In three years on my watch, we probably deported or returned or repatriated about a million people to enforce border security. One of the things I could not do is separate a child from his or her mother, or literally pull a mother from his or her arms," Johnson said on MSNBC last week. “I just couldn’t do it.”



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Lightning round: Who's the biggest geopolitical threat to the U.S right now?
Obama’s top domestic policy adviser, Cecilia Muñoz, said the Obama administration did consider a similar policy, but determined it heartless.

"The agencies were surfacing every possible idea,” Muñoz told The New York Times in an interview recently. "I do remember looking at each other like, ‘We’re not going to do this, are we?’ We spent five minutes thinking it through and concluded that it was a bad idea. The morality of it was clear — that’s not who we are."



Gov't preps up to 4000 beds in tent city for immigrant kids
JUNE 19, 201802:08
The Obama administration did detain families together — some indefinitely — in hopes of deterring future migrants back in 2014, earning protests and public outrage at the time.

"Family separation just adds injury to the insult of detention," said Bradley Jenkins, manager of the Board of Immigration Appeals Pro Bono Project at CLINIC, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. He argued the detention of asylum-seekers is "unnecessary," and that Obama-era detention centers were concerning, too.

During the Obama administration, courts intervened in several cases in which families were detained together. The detention of migrants could not be used as an effort to deter asylum-seekers, according to one ruling. According to another, the detention of minors with their parents ran afoul of the 1997 Flores settlement, a ruling that set standards for the detention of minors by prioritizing them for release to the custody of their families and requiring those in federal custody to be placed in the least restrictive environment possible.



Inside a Texas border facility where kids and parents are being separated
JUNE 18, 201802:51
On Tuesday, the Trump administration said they are looking for a legislative change to that legal precedent on how the government treats children in immigration custody; on Wednesday, the president announced an executive order to end the policy of child separation that he'd implemented in the Spring.

"In each and every one of our negotiations in the last 18 months, all the immigration bills, we asked for resolution on the Flores settlement that is what we view requires 20 days before you have to release children and basically parents been released with children into society," White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short told reporters.

The executive order Trump signed on Wednesday directs the Department of Defense to help in the housing of families, signaling that Trump now intends to detain families together much like the Obama administration did.

Just hours before signing that order, however, Trump said his family separation policy paled in comparison to his impression of the images he saw of the Obama-era family detention centers.

"You look at the images from 2014, I was watching this morning and they were showing images from 2014 and they blow away what we’re doing today," Trump said. "I saw images that were horrible."

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Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: Bulgaria
World Press Freedom Rank: Bulgaria 45/180

History

Launched in 2009, Zero Hedge is a finance blog founded by Colin Lokey also known with the pseudonym “Tyler Durden,” Daniel Ivandjiiski, and Tim Backshall. According to a Bloomberg Interview the Zero Hedge founders/authors were anonymous until 2016. A Professional Service Subscription is required to read the rest of the interview from Bloomberg, however a New Yorker article also covered their history.

Zero Hedge wrote a rebuttal article regarding the Bloomberg interview that can be found here. A quote from the rebuttal reads: “Zero Hedge hired Colin when he approached us over a year ago begging for a job after he was fired with cause from Seeking Alpha, following a fight with a co-worker.”

Funded by / Ownership

The website is registered in Bulgaria under the name Georgi Georgiev, a business partner of Krassimir Ivandjiiski.

According to Rationalwiki the only writer “conclusively” identified is “Dan Ivandjiiski, who conducts public interviews on behalf of Zero Hedge.” The blog generates revenue from online advertising.

Analysis / Bias

In a quote from the above New Yorker article they summarize the political stance of the blog, which Lokey told Bloomberg is: “Russia=good. Obama=i***t. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”

Zero Hedge’s content has been classified as “alt-right” and has been criticized for presenting conspiracy theories.

In review, Zero Hedge publishes pro-right wing/Trump articles such as Pat Buchanan: “Trump Calls Off Cold War II.” As well as f**e news stories regarding liberals: Anti-Trump Protesters Bused Into Austin, Chicago.

Editorial content is written under the pseudonym Tyler Durden and usually focuses on conspiracies related to economic collapse. Zero Hedge sources to factually mixed think tanks such as the The Mises Institute, which promotes Austrian (Anarcho-Capitalism) economics.

A factual search reveals a terrible track record with IFCN fact checkers. There are too many failed checks to list here.

Overall, we rate Zero Hedge an extreme right biased conspiracy website. (8/18/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 7/17/2018)

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Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 45/180

History

Founded in 1940, NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC, formerly known as the National Broadcasting Company. The division operates under NBCUniversal News Group, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, in turn a subsidiary of Comcast. The President of NBC News is Noah Oppenheim.

Funded by / Ownership

NBC News is owned by Comcast and funded through advertising.

Analysis / Bias

NBC News is what some call a mainstream media source. They typically publish/report factual news that uses moderately loaded words in headlines such as this: Trump threatens border security shutdown, GOP cool to idea. Story se******n tends to favor the left through both wording and bias by omission where they under report some news stories that are favorable to the right. NBC always sources their information to credible sources that are either low biased or high for factual reporting.

A factual search reveals that NBC News has not failed a fact check by an IFCN fact checker.

Overall, we rate NBC News Left-Center biased based on story se******n and word choices that moderately favor the left and High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record. (5/18/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 7/30/2018)

Detailed Report
Factual Reporting: LOW
Country: Canada
World Press Freedom Rank: Canada 18/180

History

Founded in 2001, GlobalResearch or Centre for Research on Globalization is a Canadian conspiracy website. It was founded by Michel Chossudovsky who is currently the President of GlobalResearch and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ottawa. The website does not have an about page, but they do list the people involved with the operation.

Funded by / Ownership

Although GlobalResearch does not state ownership, it is assumed Michel Chossudovky is the owner. Revenue is derived through donations and advertising.

Analysis / Bias

In review, GlobalResearch publishes a combination of real news and conspiracy theories. We will focus on the not so real news. GlobalResearch often reports unfavorably about Israel such as this: The Z*****t Idea Has Never Been More Terrifying than It Is Today. This unlabeled opinion piece does not provide a single source of evidence for their claims. When it comes to politics they are strongly anti-capitalism and anti-G*******t as their name suggests. While GlobalResearch does promote legitimate humanitarian concerns, its views on science, economics and geopolitics is very questionable. For example, GR promotes anti-v******tion propaganda, 9-11 as a false f**g operation, GMO’s are harmful, and Chemtrails. There are so many more, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

In general, this is a website the purports to be concerned for humanity, yet routinely publishes false information that misleads humanity.

A factual search reveals at least one failed fact check from an IFCN fact checker.

Overall, we rate GlobalResearch a Tin Foil Hat Conspiracy and Strong P***********e website based on the promotion of unproven information such as the dangers of V*****es and 9-11 as a false f**g operation. (D. Van Zandt 7/20/2016) Updated (5/11/2019)

Reasoning: Extreme Right, Propaganda, Some F**e News

Notes: Liberty Writers News is a highly biased extreme right wing website that re-posts news from other sources with very strong opinions and highly sensational healdines. Liberty Writers News has been accused and admitted to publishing f**e news stories here, here and here. Although there has been multiple stories written about this website, there still is not an about page or disclaimer indicating this is meant to be satire. Until that time we must assume this is a propaganda website that deliberately publishes misleading stories for the purpose of clicks. (9/20/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 7/5/2017)

Liberty Writers News is an American f**e news website, established in 2015 by Paris Wade and Ben Goldman who write under the pseudonyms Paris Swade and Danny Gold.[1][2]

The site's business model consists of publishing made-up political news stories to generate web traffic and thereby advertising revenue. In six months in 2016, its Facebook page attracted 805,000 followers and tens of millions of page views,[1] generating 95% of the site's traffic, which as of August 2016 yielded between $10,000 and $40,000 in revenue a month.[3]

As related by Wade and Goldman to the Washington Post, their stories focus on "violence and chaos and aggressive wording" to attract readers.[1] The stories reflect the positions of supporters of Donald Trump, and employ headlines such as "OBAMA BIRTH SECRETS REVEALED! The Letters From His Dad Reveal Something Sinister..." or "BREAKING: Top Official Set to Testify Against Hillary Clinton Found DEAD!".[1] Wade and Goldman said that they themselves were initially "liberal" and had v**ed for Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 e******ns, but later "began to doubt those v**es, their college education and the progressive values with which they were raised."[1]

According to the Christian Science Monitor, Liberty Writers News was f**gged by Facebook in December 2016 as one of the "worst of the worst" f**e news websites that created "clear h**xes spread by spammers for their own gain."[4]

A 2018 report by Buzzfeed News linked Wade and Goldman to a Macedonian media attorney who operated numerous “f**e news” websites during the six month lead-up to the 2016 P**********l E******n.[5][6]

References

1. McCoy, Terrence (20 November 2016). "For the 'new yellow journalists,' opportunity comes in clicks and bucks". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 November 2016.

2. Dvorak, Petula (21 November 2016). "F**e-news writers need to meet the real reporters who die trying to do their jobs". Washington Post. Retrieved 2 February 2017.

3. Tynan, Dan (24 August 2016). "How Facebook powers money machines for obscure political 'news' sites". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 November 2016.

4. Porter, Stephen (16 December 2016). "Facebook to f**g 'worst of the worst' f**e news with fact-checking partners". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 21 August 2018.

5. Silverman, Craig; Feder, J. Lester (18 July 2018). "Macedonia's Pro-Trump F**e News Industry Had American Links, And Is Under Investigation For Possible Russia Ties". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 21 August 2018.

6. Birnbaum, Emily (18 July 2018). "Two US writers linked to rise of f**e news from Macedonia: report". The Hill. Retrieved 21 August 2018.