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 profit or influence (Learn More). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact-checked 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. Update: this source is still online. but has not been updated in 2021. Therefore, we are retiring this source due to inactivity.
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE
Reasoning: Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy
Patriboticsis a blog written by Louise Mensch, a former conservative British MP and co-founder of the Heat Street website. According to their about page, the purpose of the Patribotics blog is to provide “investigative journalism and analysis of the Russian hack on America’s election and related topics. Pro-America, pro-democracy, pro-NATO, pro-Russia, anti-Putin.” While Patribotics does produce factual content, they also promote numerous unproven conspiracies. The blog has been called controversial and cites unnamed sources in the intelligence community. Mensch has stated that she prefers the freedom of self-publishing, which has her own blog affords; she told The Guardian, “I didn’t want to be subject to an editing process. Editors would ask: who are your sources? And I can’t tell them.” Overall, this source does produce some quality investigative journalism, but many unproven and un-sourced claims render this blog questionable. (D. Van Zandt 7/30/2017)
Source: https://patribotics.blog/
Last Updated on June 23, 2021 by Media Bias Fact Check
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