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The People's Voice (formerly known as NewsPunch and Your News Wire) is an American fake news website [11] based in Los Angeles. The site was founded as Your News Wire [5] [12] [13] in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and his husband, Sinclair Treadway. [3] [6] [14] In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch. [12] Your News Wire was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in NewsPunch. [15] In 2023, NewsPunch adopted its current name, The People's Voice. [16]
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, [17] 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. [18] [19]
The name The People's Voice was also used by a short-lived internet TV station in the 2010s, which was founded by Icke.
The People's Voice, NewsPunch, and Your News Wire have published false stories, including:
News
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page)....Your News Wire which frequently publishes fake news...
...a consistent purveyor of fake news and political disinformation, YourNewsWIre[sic]...
After working as a television producer for the BBC and MTV, he took a job helping to run the conspiracy theory site of David Icke, a former BBC sports presenter who claims the world is secretly run by alien reptiles in disguise.
Another prolific writer on the site goes by the name of Baxter Dmitry. The photograph next to the author's name was in fact that of a Latvian computer programmer, who told The Sunday Times he was not Dmitry and his identity had been stolen.
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Type of site | |
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Available in | English |
Founder(s) |
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URL | |
Launched | 2014 |
Current status | Active |
The People's Voice (formerly known as NewsPunch and Your News Wire) is an American fake news website [11] based in Los Angeles. The site was founded as Your News Wire [5] [12] [13] in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and his husband, Sinclair Treadway. [3] [6] [14] In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch. [12] Your News Wire was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in NewsPunch. [15] In 2023, NewsPunch adopted its current name, The People's Voice. [16]
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, [17] 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. [18] [19]
The name The People's Voice was also used by a short-lived internet TV station in the 2010s, which was founded by Icke.
The People's Voice, NewsPunch, and Your News Wire have published false stories, including:
News
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page)....Your News Wire which frequently publishes fake news...
...a consistent purveyor of fake news and political disinformation, YourNewsWIre[sic]...
After working as a television producer for the BBC and MTV, he took a job helping to run the conspiracy theory site of David Icke, a former BBC sports presenter who claims the world is secretly run by alien reptiles in disguise.
Another prolific writer on the site goes by the name of Baxter Dmitry. The photograph next to the author's name was in fact that of a Latvian computer programmer, who told The Sunday Times he was not Dmitry and his identity had been stolen.