List of fake news websites (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of fake news websites" in English language version.

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11alive.com (Global: 7,338th place; English: 4,037th place)

20minutes.fr (Global: 674th place; English: 4,236th place)

404media.co (Global: low place; English: low place)

943thepoint.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

aap.com.au (Global: low place; English: low place)

adrforum.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

adweek.com (Global: 1,117th place; English: 624th place)

afp.com (Global: 6,649th place; English: 5,494th place)

factcheck.afp.com

factual.afp.com

africacheck.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

annielab.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

apnews.com (Global: 129th place; English: 89th place)

archive.today (Global: 14th place; English: 14th place)

arstechnica.com (Global: 388th place; English: 265th place)

bbc.com (Global: 20th place; English: 30th place)

bloomberg.com (Global: 99th place; English: 77th place)

bostonglobe.com (Global: 553rd place; English: 334th place)

businessinsider.com (Global: 140th place; English: 115th place)

  • "Watch out for this fake news website masquerading as The New York Times". businessinsider.com. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  • Gilbert, Ben (15 November 2016), "Fed up with fake news, Facebook users are solving the problem with a simple list", Business Insider, archived from the original on 26 May 2019, retrieved 16 November 2016, Some of these sites are intended to look like real publications (there are false versions of major outlets like ABC and MSNBC) but share only fake news; others are straight-up propaganda created by foreign nations (Russia and Macedonia, among others).

buzzfeed.com (Global: 681st place; English: 492nd place)

buzzfeednews.com (Global: 1,368th place; English: 793rd place)

cbsnews.com (Global: 108th place; English: 80th place)

chicagotribune.com (Global: 95th place; English: 70th place)

citizenlab.ca (Global: low place; English: low place)

cjr.org (Global: 4,313th place; English: 2,441st place)

climatica.coop (Global: low place; English: low place)

cnnphilippines.com (Global: 2,993rd place; English: 1,624th place)

counterhate.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

csmonitor.com (Global: 791st place; English: 550th place)

dailydot.com (Global: 998th place; English: 632nd place)

dailyedge.ie (Global: low place; English: low place)

dartmouth.edu (Global: 2,242nd place; English: 1,513th place)

datasociety.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

desmog.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

detector.media (Global: 3,368th place; English: low place)

disinfo.detector.media

disinfo.eu (Global: low place; English: low place)

disinformationindex.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

doi.org (Global: 2nd place; English: 2nd place)

doubleverify.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

dw.com (Global: 204th place; English: 353rd place)

elconfidencial.com (Global: 891st place; English: 2,244th place)

eldebate.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

eldiario.es (Global: 746th place; English: 1,968th place)

elespanol.com (Global: 1,144th place; English: 2,308th place)

factcheck.org (Global: 7,075th place; English: 4,103rd place)

fb.com (Global: 3,546th place; English: 3,247th place)

about.fb.com

feedback.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

science.feedback.org

forward.com (Global: 1,344th place; English: 796th place)

ftc.gov (Global: 3,796th place; English: 2,268th place)

fullfact.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

futurism.com (Global: low place; English: 8,786th place)

gizmodo.com (Global: 474th place; English: 329th place)

globalnews.ca (Global: 985th place; English: 583rd place)

goodhousekeeping.com (Global: 3,268th place; English: 1,905th place)

graphika.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

public-assets.graphika.com

handle.net (Global: 102nd place; English: 76th place)

hdl.handle.net

harvard.edu (Global: 18th place; English: 17th place)

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu

dataverse.harvard.edu

hku.hk (Global: 3,930th place; English: 3,450th place)

asiaglobalonline.hku.hk

hollywoodreporter.com (Global: 15th place; English: 16th place)

huffpost.com (Global: 378th place; English: 251st place)

ibtimes.co.uk (Global: 1,746th place; English: 1,165th place)

independent.co.uk (Global: 36th place; English: 33rd place)

isdglobal.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

iu.edu (Global: 3,316th place; English: 1,982nd place)

news.iu.edu

jacksonville.com (Global: 2,279th place; English: 1,245th place)

jhu.edu (Global: 699th place; English: 479th place)

muse.jhu.edu

journalqd.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

jsonline.com (Global: 1,392nd place; English: 753rd place)

justice.gov (Global: 918th place; English: 556th place)

kentonline.co.uk (Global: 5,024th place; English: 2,706th place)

ktar.com (Global: low place; English: 7,434th place)

latimes.com (Global: 22nd place; English: 19th place)

leadstories.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

hoax-alert.leadstories.com

leadstories.com

lexpress.fr (Global: 425th place; English: 1,928th place)

lexpansion.lexpress.fr

libertaddigital.com (Global: 3,124th place; English: 9,416th place)

logicallyfacts.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

lse.ac.uk (Global: 2,117th place; English: 1,361st place)

maldita.es (Global: low place; English: low place)

mandiant.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

mcgill.ca (Global: 2,527th place; English: 1,840th place)

medium.com (Global: 551st place; English: 406th place)

mercurynews.com (Global: 701st place; English: 439th place)

miaminewtimes.com (Global: 2,203rd place; English: 1,276th place)

motherjones.com (Global: 2,008th place; English: 1,197th place)

nbcnews.com (Global: 137th place; English: 101st place)

newrepublic.com (Global: 1,948th place; English: 1,153rd place)

news24.com (Global: 1,309th place; English: 762nd place)

exposed.news24.com

newsguardrealitycheck.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

newsguardtech.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

newslaundry.com (Global: 9,763rd place; English: 5,321st place)

newsweek.com (Global: 269th place; English: 201st place)

newtral.es (Global: low place; English: low place)

newyorker.com (Global: 146th place; English: 110th place)

niemanlab.org (Global: low place; English: 6,277th place)

nih.gov (Global: 4th place; English: 4th place)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

npr.org (Global: 92nd place; English: 72nd place)

nytimes.com (Global: 7th place; English: 7th place)

politico.eu (Global: 1,347th place; English: 909th place)

politifact.com (Global: 3,208th place; English: 1,803rd place)

poynter.org (Global: 8,349th place; English: 4,860th place)

poynter.org

ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org

qurium.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

qz.com (Global: 1,110th place; English: 695th place)

reuters.com (Global: 49th place; English: 47th place)

salon.com (Global: 456th place; English: 300th place)

sciencebasedmedicine.org (Global: 5,063rd place; English: 3,360th place)

scienceblogs.com (Global: 8,518th place; English: 7,193rd place)

semanticscholar.org (Global: 11th place; English: 8th place)

api.semanticscholar.org

servimedia.es (Global: low place; English: low place)

sfgate.com (Global: 166th place; English: 121st place)

sfweekly.com (Global: 3,730th place; English: 2,177th place)

slate.com (Global: 259th place; English: 188th place)

snopes.com (Global: 944th place; English: 678th place)

spiegel.de (Global: 66th place; English: 350th place)

splcenter.org (Global: 2,003rd place; English: 1,161st place)

stanford.edu (Global: 179th place; English: 183rd place)

web.stanford.edu

statnews.com (Global: 8,771st place; English: 5,253rd place)

tennessean.com (Global: 1,522nd place; English: 824th place)

theatlantic.com (Global: 228th place; English: 158th place)

thedailybeast.com (Global: 330th place; English: 222nd place)

thefader.com (Global: 917th place; English: 557th place)

theguardian.com (Global: 12th place; English: 11th place)

themirror.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

theness.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

theregister.co.uk (Global: 1,216th place; English: 797th place)

thetimes.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

  • Boswell, Josh (January 29, 2017). "Mother churns out stories for master of fake news". The Times. London. Archived from the original on July 18, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017. 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.

theverge.com (Global: 114th place; English: 90th place)

thewrap.com (Global: 112th place; English: 88th place)

timesunion.com (Global: 2,970th place; English: 1,588th place)

blog.timesunion.com

tre-rs.jus.br (Global: low place; English: low place)

mural.tre-rs.jus.br

ucc.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

libguides.ucc.edu

univision.com (Global: 1,166th place; English: 1,463rd place)

usatoday.com (Global: 41st place; English: 34th place)

utah.edu (Global: 2,446th place; English: 1,661st place)

dc.law.utah.edu

vanityfair.com (Global: 107th place; English: 81st place)

verafiles.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

vice.com (Global: 175th place; English: 137th place)

vox.com (Global: 484th place; English: 323rd place)

washingtonpost.com (Global: 34th place; English: 27th place)

washingtontimes.com (Global: 1,029th place; English: 657th place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)

wiley.com (Global: 222nd place; English: 297th place)

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

wired.com (Global: 193rd place; English: 152nd place)

wnycstudios.org (Global: low place; English: 8,687th place)

worldcat.org (Global: 5th place; English: 5th place)

search.worldcat.org

wsj.com (Global: 79th place; English: 65th place)

youtube.com (Global: 9th place; English: 13th place)