marktron / fakenews

An in-progress collection of sites that spread clickbait, hoaxes, propaganda and disinformation.
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How did consortiumnews.com get added? #9

Closed AdamFrey closed 6 years ago

AdamFrey commented 7 years ago

I reached this repo from the StevenBlack hosts repo and I was surprised to see consortiumnews.com on this list. I visit that site occasionally after I listened to a podcast interview with the site's creator and editor Robert Parry. He has been a well-known investigative journalist for decades, winning journalistic awards and working on high-profile stories. You should read his wikipedia page for an overview.

I believe that consortiumnews.com is quite a different website than the obvious propaganda sites that it shares the list with, so I'm interested in how it got on this list.

I think it would be a good idea to keep some record of an example of a "fake news" story from each site that gets added to the blacklist, in the interest of transparency. What are your thoughts about that?