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Founder: Joseph Farah
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| + | '''WorldNetDaily''' is a website run by [[Joseph Farah]]. | ||
| + | ==Opinions== | ||
| + | The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] terms WorldNetDaily an "[[extremist]]" group, the pages of which "are devoted to manipulative fear-mongering and outright fabrications designed to further the paranoid, gay-hating, conspiratorial and apocalyptic visions of [[Joseph Farah|Farah]] and his hand-picked contributors from the fringes of the far-right and fundamentalist worlds".<ref>https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/worldnetdaily</ref> | ||
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| + | Criticising its promotions of the claim that [[Barack Obama]] may not have been born in the US, ''[[The Guardian]]'' claimed termed WND "a niche producer of rightwing [[conspiracy theories]], religious books and “family values”".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/21/barack-obama-us-elections-2012</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 12:44, 13 November 2017
| Conservative news aggregation site |
http://www.wnd.com Started: 1997
Founder: Joseph Farah
Owners: WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
WorldNetDaily is a website run by Joseph Farah.
Opinions
The Southern Poverty Law Center terms WorldNetDaily an "extremist" group, the pages of which "are devoted to manipulative fear-mongering and outright fabrications designed to further the paranoid, gay-hating, conspiratorial and apocalyptic visions of Farah and his hand-picked contributors from the fringes of the far-right and fundamentalist worlds".[1]
Criticising its promotions of the claim that Barack Obama may not have been born in the US, The Guardian claimed termed WND "a niche producer of rightwing conspiracy theories, religious books and “family values”".[2]
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