GoodGopher – Bias and Credibility

GoodGopher - Right Bias - Fake News - Pseudoscience - Conspiracy - Not CredibleFactual Reporting: Very Low - Biased - Not Credible - Fake News


QUESTIONABLE SOURCE

A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence (Learn More). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact checked on a per article basis. Please note sources on this list are not considered fake news unless specifically written in the reasoning section for that source. See all Questionable sources.

  • Overall, we rate GoodGopher a right-biased conspiracy and pseudoscience website that is not credible in any way. Basically, this search engine is geared toward people who want to filter out reality.

Detailed Report

Reasoning: Right, Conspiracy, Pseudoscience, Some Fake News
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 48/180

History

According to their about page, “GoodGopher was developed by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews.com. It further states “GoodGopher is the world’s first privacy-protected search engine that filters our corporate propaganda and government disinformation (real news).

Read our profile on the United States government and media.

Funded by / Ownership

Good Gopher is owned by Mike Adams, who owns numerous right-wing conspiracy and pseudoscience websites. The website (search engine) is funded through online advertising.

Analysis / Bias

In review, GoodGopher is not actually a news source but rather a search engine that only searches specific sources. Virtually every source they search is either a conspiracy, pseudoscience, questionable, or right-biased website. Here is the list of the sites they search:

NaturalNews.com
NewsTarget.com
TruthStreamMedia.com
ActivistPost.com
TruthWiki.org
TheBlaze.com
Twitchy.com
LewRockwell.com
PoliticalTracker.com
OffGridSurvival.com
TenthAmendmentCenter.com
TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com
DrudgeReport.com
FukushimaWatch.com
GovtSlaves.info
TheSleuthJournal.com
EyeOpening.info
LibertyBlitzkrieg.com
NoMoreFakeNews.com
NutritionalAnarchy.com
RightSideNews.com
WhatReallyHappened.com
Not all of these sources are rated by MBFC (we have added them to our pending list), but most of the rated ones are either Conspiracy or Questionable or Extreme Right Biased. This is a search engine for false claims, misinformation and pseudoscience.
Overall, we rate GoodGopher a right-biased conspiracy and pseudoscience website that is not credible in any way. Basically, this search engine is geared toward people who want to filter out reality. (4/11/2017) Updated (D. Van Zandt 11/26/2022)

Source: http://www.goodgopher.com/



Last Updated on May 24, 2023 by Media Bias Fact Check


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