Sunday, June 23, 2024

Deluge of ‘pink slime’ websites threaten to drown out truth with fake news in US election

According to a recent report from NewsGuard, a company that aims to counter misinformation by studying and rating news websites, the websites are so prolific that "the odds are now better than 50-50 that if you see a news website purporting to cover local news, it's fake." 

NewsGuard estimates that there are a staggering 1,265 such fake local news websites in the US – 4% more than the websites of 1,213 daily newspapers left operating in the country...

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