Zero Hedge

Zero Hedge
Type of site
  • Capital markets finance blog
  • News and political opinion
Available inEnglish
OwnerABC Media Limited (Bulgaria)[1]
Created byDaniel Ivandjiiski
Editor
  • Daniel Ivandjiiski
  • Tim Backshall
URLzerohedge.com Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialYes (free content, paid advertising)
RegistrationOptional. Registration is required to post comments.
Launched9 January 2009; 15 years ago (2009-01-09)[2]
Current statusOnline

Zero Hedge (or ZeroHedge)[a] is a far-right[13] libertarian[18] financial blog and news aggregator.[14][15][19] Zero Hedge is bearish in its investment outlook and analysis, often deriving from a strict adherence to the Austrian School of economics and credit cycles.[20] It has been described as a financial "permabear".[21][22]

Over time, Zero Hedge expanded into non-financial political content,[b] including conspiracy theories and fringe rhetoric[3][24] advancing radical right,[15][25] alt-right,[26][27][28] and pro-Russia positions.[1][29][30][31] Zero Hedge's non-financial commentary has led to multiple site bans by global social media platforms, although a 2019 Facebook ban[32][33] and a 2020 Twitter ban were later reversed.[15][34]

Zero Hedge's in-house content is authored by one "Tyler Durden"; the pen name of site owner Daniel Ivandjiiski.[23] The motto of the site is posted in the masthead of every page: "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero". The quote is from the book and film Fight Club,[35] which is in turn a paraphrase of economist John Maynard Keynes who said "In the long run we are all dead".[36]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference TNR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  3. ^ a b Zeng, Jing; Schäfer, Mike S. (16 June 2021). "Conceptualizing "Dark Platforms". Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab". Digital Journalism. 9 (9). Routledge: 1321–1343. doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1938165. Another website that appeared regularly on both platforms was the far-right finance news website, ZeroHedge, which was cited 620 and 770 times on 8kun and Gab, respectively. ZeroHedge is infamous for making controversial commentaries on socio-political issues; during the pandemic, its Twitter account was suspended for propagating conspiratorial claims that blamed the Wuhan Institute of Virology for creating the novel coronavirus.
  4. ^ Krafft, P. M.; Donovan, Joan (3 March 2020). "Disinformation by Design: The Use of Evidence Collages and Platform Filtering in a Media Manipulation Campaign". Political Communication. 37 (2). Routledge: 194–214. doi:10.1080/10584609.2019.1686094. The total amount of relevant data consisted of six 4chan threads, four 8chan threads, one Discord channel, two threads from other far right forums (Zerohedge and FreeRepublic), an Everipedia post, six far-right blogs (Puppet String News, GotNews, The Gateway Pundit, Studio News Network, Freedom Daily, and YourNewsWire), ...
  5. ^ Fraser, Adele-Momoko (16 June 2020). "Google bans website ZeroHedge from its ad platform over comments on protest articles". CNBC. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  6. ^ Durkee, Alison (16 June 2020). "Google and Facebook Are Cracking Down on the Far Right". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  7. ^ Basu, Kajal (13 June 2020). "Who 'Created' Covid?". Outlook. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Republicans push back on Google restrictions". Special Report. 17 June 2020. Fox News. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  9. ^ Dickson, EJ (16 April 2020). "Anti-Vax Doctor Promotes Conspiracy Theory That Death Certificates Falsely Cite COVID-19". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  10. ^ Broderick, Ryan (22 April 2020). "Scientists Haven't Found Proof The Coronavirus Escaped From A Lab in Wuhan. Trump Supporters Are Spreading The Rumor Anyway". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  11. ^ Bellemare, Andrea (11 February 2020). "How social media platforms are fighting coronavirus misinformation". CBC.ca. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  12. ^ Sabalow, Ryan; Kasler, Dale (6 June 2018). "No, Californians, you won't be fined $1,000 if you shower and do laundry the same day". The Sacramento Bee (paywall). Retrieved 29 June 2020.
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  14. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference bloom10 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  16. ^ Datta, Saikat (5 February 2020). "The weaponized Wuhan virus that really wasn't". Asia Times. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  17. ^ McKay, Tom (24 June 2020). "Here's An Idea: The Trump Campaign Should Simply Take Over MySpace". Gizmodo UK. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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  19. ^ Detrixhe, John (13 September 2017). "JPMorgan has pulled ads from Zero Hedge that ended up there by accident". Quartz. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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  23. ^ a b Tracy Alloway; Luke Kawa (29 April 2016). "Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge, Wall Street's Renegade Blog: The veil is lifted on a secretive website". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 7 January 2023. Colin Lokey, also known as "Tyler Durden," is breaking the first rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. He's also breaking the second rule of Fight Club. (See the first rule.)
  24. ^ Nguyen, Tina (12 May 2020). "MAGA speech clashes with coronavirus misinformation crackdown". Politico. Retrieved 7 January 2023. Zero Hedge, a popular fringe website known for its conspiratorial posts
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  26. ^ Zhang, Chi (19 April 2018). "WeChatting American Politics: Misinformation, Polarization, and Immigrant Chinese Media". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  27. ^ Kreps, Sarah (26 June 2020). "The role of technology in online misinformation". Brookings Institution. p. 4. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  28. ^ Dornan, Christopher (11 June 2020). "Science Disinformation in a Time of Pandemic". Public Policy Forum. p. 15. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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  34. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bhalla 2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  35. ^ "Fight Club Script". The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb). 16 February 1998. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  36. ^ John Maynard Keynes (1923), A Tract on Monetary Reform, Macmillan, retrieved 27 September 2020


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