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Update: As of November 2018 YourNewsWire redirects to a new website called News Punch.
- Overall, we rate YourNewsWire a Tin Foil Hat level conspiracy website that has zero credibility due to routine publishing of fake news.
Detailed Report
Factual Reporting: LOW
Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 48/180
History
YourNewsWire is a Los Angeles-based clickbait news website known for promoting conspiracy theories and pseudoscience misinformation. The website is founded and edited by Sean Adl-Tabatabai.
Funded by / Ownership
YourNewsWire claims on its website that it is owned by a holding company called The People’s Voice, inc. The website is funded through an online advertising model.
Analysis / Bias
In review, YourNewsWire is a conspiracy and pseudoscience website that also routinely publishes fake news. Headlines use loaded emotional language such as this: I Was In The Illuminati I’m Going To Tell You Everything, Shocking Expose. Politically, story selection almost always favors the right through negative stories regarding liberal policy and politicians such as this: CIA Insider: Hillary Clinton Most Treasonous Leader In History.
YourNewsWire publishes anti-vaccination propaganda, stories of impending world war 3 and extraterrestrial stories, just to name a few. Further, YourNewsWire has made Factcheck.org’s fake news list. as well as having an abysmal track record with fact checkers. Finally, according to Poynter Institute, YourNewsWire has more false claims by IFCN fact checkers than any other website.
Overall, we rate YourNewsWire a Tin Foil Hat level conspiracy website that has zero credibility due to routine publishing of fake news. (9/10/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 7/23/2018)
Source: http://yournewswire.com/
Update: As of November 2018 YourNewsWire redirects to a new website called News Punch.
