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Science Feedback investigation uncovers Slay News’ links to Paul Roughsedge and Stephen Anthony McQueen, founders of One Fox Digital, a UK-based IT consultancy.
Reputable news sources demonstrate transparency in all aspects of their operation. They disclose their sources of funding, identify staff who produce their content and clearly indicate their sources of information. If they commit errors, they openly acknowledge and correct these errors. Our investigation shows Leading Report exhibits none of these characteristics. The two individuals who run the website and its X/Twitter account appear to hold no relevant credentials in health, medicine or journalism.
Introduction As social media platforms try to tackle the spread of misinformation, their first challenge is the reliable identification of…
Another purported cure-all for cancer A claim that the “first complete cure for cancer” had been discovered by an Israeli…
Similar claims that we would be heading towards an imminent “mini ice age” were also repeated without verification throughout a network of unreliable outlets for climate news including Sputnik, The Sun, Fox News, and numerous hyper-partisan blogs such as Zero Hedge, Principia Scientific, IceAgeNow, Alien-Star…
The diagram below shows that the articles mostly rely heavily on each other—like in an echo chamber—with very few outside sources included in the reporting. A first wave of “reporting” appeared in The Spectator, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, and Breitbart, which were then largely copied and pasted in a second wave of posts with larger audiences…
Early last month, British tabloid the Daily Mail published an article accusing the former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
