The People's Voice (website)
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The People's Voice (formerly known as NewsPunch and Your News Wire) is an American fake news website[1] based in Los Angeles. The site was founded as Your News Wire[5][11][12] in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and his husband, Sinclair Treadway.[3][6][13] In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch.[11] Your News Wire was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in NewsPunch.[14] In 2023, NewsPunch adopted its current name, The People's Voice.[15]
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Available in | English |
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Launched | 2014 |
Current status | Active |
A 2017 BuzzFeed News report identified NewsPunch as being the second-largest source of popular fake stories spread on Facebook that year,[6] and a June 2018 Poynter analysis identified NewsPunch as being debunked over 80 times in 2017 and 2018 by Poynter-accredited factcheckers such as Snopes, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and the Associated Press.[7]
The European Union's East StratCom Task Force has criticized NewsPunch for spreading Russian propaganda, a charge Adl-Tabatabai denies.[3]
Regular contributors to NewsPunch include Adl-Tabatabai, a former BBC and MTV employee from London previously an employee of conspiracy theorist David Icke,[16] Adl-Tabatabai's mother Carol Adl, an alternative health practitioner, and Baxter Dmitry, who had previously been posing as an unrelated Latvian man using a stolen profile photo.[17][18]
The name The People's Voice was also used by a short-lived internet TV station in the 2010s, which was founded by Icke.