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
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- Overall, we rate News Punch a Questionable source based on extreme right wing bias and promotion of tin foil hat conspiracies. This website has zero credibility due to routine publishing of fake news
Detailed Report
Reasoning
Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Fake News
Country:
USA
World Press Freedom Rank:
USA 45/180
History
Founded in November 2018, News Punch is a Los Angeles-based
clickbait news website that promotes extreme right wing conspiracy theories and pseudoscience misinformation. The website is founded and edited by
Sean Adl-Tabatabai, who was the founder of
YourNewsWire. In fact, News Punch is actually YourNewsWire redirected under a new domain name with a clean attractive website. All previous fake YourNewsWire stories have been ported over to this website/domain. Not much has changed.
Funded by / Ownership
News Punch 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, News Punch (aka YourNewsWire) is a far right wing 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. Further, the sources utilized by News Punch are some of the least credible out there, such as
Infowars and the
Gateway Pundit.
News Punch routinely publishes
anti-vaccination propaganda, stories of impending
world war 3 and
extraterrestrial stories, just to name a few. Further, YourNewsWire (Now News Punch) 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 (News Punch) has more false claims by
IFCN fact checkers than any other website.
Overall, we rate News Punch a Questionable source based on extreme right wing bias and promotion of tin foil hat conspiracies. This website has zero credibility due to routine publishing of fake news. (D. Van Zandt 11/13/2018)
Source:
https://newspunch.com
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no
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