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The People's Voice (website)
American fake news website From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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Your News Wire
NewsPunch
Logos of former website names used by The People's Voice
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 Institute analysis identified NewsPunch as being debunked over 80 times in 2017 and 2018 by International Fact-Checking Network–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.
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Fake news stories
The People's Voice, NewsPunch, and Your News Wire have published false stories, including:
- Stories pushing the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.[19][20] NewsPunch was one of the first sites to propagate the conspiracy theory, publishing a falsified story that was later used as a basis for Pizzagate's viral spread among the alt-right.[21]
- Claims that the 2017 Las Vegas shootings and Manchester Arena bombings were false flags.[22][23]
- Anti-vaccination hoaxes alleging that Bill Gates refused to vaccinate his children[24] and "admitted that vaccinations are designed so that governments can depopulate the world".[25]
- Claims that Hillary Clinton's popular vote victory in the 2016 United States presidential election was the result of voter fraud.[26]
- Allegations that Clinton was responsible for Anthony Bourdain's suicide,[27][28] invoking the conspiracy theory that the Clintons had murdered people.[28]
- False claims that Justin Trudeau was the love child of Fidel Castro.[11]
- False claims about the World Economic Forum.[29][30][31]
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