Zero Hedge

 http://www.zerohedge.com/     
Founders: Daniel Ivandjiiski, Tim Backshall, Colin Lokey

Owner: ABC Media Limited
Constitutes: blog

Zero Hedge is a financial, underground-alternative, conservative media blog, which doesn't shrink from perspectives censored by the commercially-controlled media. It was included in the original 2016 PropOrNot list of 200 "Fake News" websites and has been consistently one of the most popular sites on that list.

Attribution

Many of the Zero Hedge writers write under the pseudonym 'Tyler Durden'. Contributing editors offer a regular selection of articles to the site. Several contributing editors, who formerly promoted and supported Donald Trump during the 2016 US election, daily debunking insane, over-the-top attacks from corporate media which all proved almost conveniently false, have now switched almost universally to promoting Progressive-Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard 2020 Campaign, with virtually zero vetting of her campaign to expose her hypocrisy, flip-flopping and ties to the Council on Foreign Relations, as they did for Trump in the 2016 Election cycle. Often more can be learned, simply reading the comments section at the bottom of any article, than from the articles themselves. Regulars do a good job debunking poorly researched or overly biased articles, along with offering links to other interesting sources/sites. Since anyone may register to comment, the site has seen an influx of trolls, in recent years, possibly from intelligence agencies, along with bad actors promoting links to computer viruses. Site commentators do a good job identifying regular offenders.

Manifesto

Zero Hedge bills itself as a whistleblower outlet, using the 'Tyler Durden' pseudonym to disguise sources and authors.

Reporting

Site bias leans mega-bear, constantly threatening the end of world, daily predicting an 'Armageddon' that never comes to pass and has a dismal record on stock market predictions as well. Zero Hedge has been a widow-maker in bad market calls since 2011, although they occasionally make a spectacular call that proves right, so one shouldn't simply dismiss all financial-news articles. Site leans "apolitical" and will attack any candidate or politician for corruption, but leans towards conservative-populism.

September 11, 2001

Full article: 9-11

On September 11, 2018, Zero Hedge posted an article by David Stolinsky which supported the 9/11 official narrative of the 19 hijackers that recommended that the US use a "size-14 boot stomp... [in the Middle East] to encourage our friends and frighten our enemies".

Censorship

Christchurch Mass Shooting‎

Zero Hedge was censored in New Zealand after the Christchurch Mass Shooting‎. A few days earlier it had been censored by Facebook, a ban that was later termed "a mistake" and repealed.

2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak‎‎

Full article: 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak‎‎

Zero Hedge was censored after suggesting that COVID-19 might not be entirely of natural origin. Six Reasons Why Covid-19 Fails The Sniff Test commented that "the hysteria has a sort of Y2K vibe to it all."

 

Documents sourced from Zero Hedge

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Mueller Scrambles To Limit Evidence After Indicted Russians Actually Show Up In Court	Article	Robert Mueller Russia Concord Management and Consulting Russiagate	13 June 2018	'Tyler Durden'	This is probably the first time in the history of litigation that a plaintiff (here, prosecutor) has told a court that it may not have obtained good service of process on a defendant that has appeared to defend the case on the merits. Robert Mueller to US District Court: "We didn’t really mean it, Judge! We had no idea they might actually show up!"
Document:Russia Claims US Deploys Warships For Imminent Attack On Syria, Trains Militants For False Flag Attack	blog post	Syria White Helmets Hamish de Bretton-Gordon Sergei Skripal Novichok	17 March 2018	'Tyler Durden'	United States-led coalition to "retaliate" for another false flag chemical attack done by the White Helmets in Syria
Document:Sept 11 Widow Is First American To Sue Saudi Arabia For Terrorism: Her Full Lawsuit	Article	9-11 Saudi Arabia Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act	1 October 2016	'Tyler Durden'	Widow of 9-11 victim Navy Commander Patrick Dunn sues Saudi Arabia
File:The Astonishing Hubris of a Global Experimental Vaccine.pdf	Article	"COVID-19/Vaccine"	2 August 2021	Larry Sanger	Larry Sanger explains why he thinks it might be a bad idea to vaccinate billions of people with an experimental substance of which the long term side effects are unknown (initially published at larrysanger.org).

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