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The Post-American World is a non-fiction book by American journalist Fareed Zakaria. It was published in hardcover and audiobook formats in early May 2008 and became available in paperback in early May 2009; the Updated and Expanded Release 2.0 followed in 2011. In the book, Zakaria argues that, thanks to the actions of the United States in ...
The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
Many popular fake news websites like ABCnews.com.co attempted to impersonate a legitimate U.S. news publication, relying on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on. They exploited common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains such as .com.co as opposed to .com.
Lead Stories: fact checks posts that Facebook flags but also use its own technology, called "Trendolizer", to detect trending hoaxes from hundreds of known fake news sites, satirical websites and prank generators. [212] [213] Media Bias/Fact Check. An American websites with focus on "political bias" and "factual reporting". [214] [215].
Snopes aims to debunk or confirm widely spread urban legends. The site has been referenced by news media and other sites, including CNN, [ 40] MSNBC, [ 41] Fortune, Forbes, and The New York Times. [ 42] By March 2009, the site had more than six million visitors per month. [ 43] David Mikkelson ran the website from his home in Tacoma, Washington.
The Hoax. The hoax alleges that a Pan Am Douglas DC-4 with 54 passengers and 10 crew members disappeared without a trace on a flight from New York City to Miami on July 2nd, 1955. After 30 years (37 in some sources), the plane was sighted again near Caracas, and then after landing at the airport there, the plane immediately took off again and ...
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, Newsweek was widely distributed during the 20th century and had many notable editors-in-chief. It is currently co-owned by Dev Pragad, the president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis who sits on the board; they each own 50% of the company.
Janet Leslie Cooke (born July 23, 1954) is an American former journalist. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for an article written for The Washington Post.The story was later discovered to have been fabricated and Cooke returned the prize, the only person to date to do so, [1] after admitting she had fabricated stories.