MintPress News

MintPress News
Type of site
News website
Available inEnglish
Founder(s)Mnar Adley
URLmintpressnews.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched2011

MintPress News (MPN) is an American far-left[1] news website. It was founded and edited by Mnar Adley and was launched in January 2012,[2] and also publishes the MintCast podcast. The site covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues.

MintPress News supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and the governments of Russia, Iran, and Syria.[3][4] It opposes the governments of Israel and Saudi Arabia,[5] and reports geopolitical events from an anti-Western perspective.[6] In one contentious article, MintPress News asserted that the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria was perpetrated by rebel groups rather than by the Syrian government, a claim pushed by the Russian and Syrian governments and rejected by much of the international community.[4]

MintPress News was a major media domain that spread disinformation about the White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer organization.[7] The site has been accused of regularly publishing pro-Russian propaganda,[8] and has been described as a conspiratorial website by media studies and disinformation scholars.[9][10]

MintPress News is headquartered in Minnesota, where it operated one office location until 2014.[11]

  1. ^ Multiple sources:
  2. ^ Binkovitz, Leah (March 28, 2012). "Mint Press News". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on June 24, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  3. ^ Fiorella, Giancarlo; Godart, Charlotte; Waters, Nick (July 14, 2021). "Digital Integrity: Exploring Digital Evidence Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Strategies for Open Source Researchers". Journal of International Criminal Justice. 19 (1). Oxford University Press: 147–161. doi:10.1093/jicj/mqab022. ISSN 1478-1387. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022. These grassroots communities are particularly evident on Twitter, where they coalesce around individual personalities like right-wing activist Andy Ngo, and around platforms with uncritical pro-Kremlin and pro-Assad editorial lines, like The Grayzone and MintPress News. These personalities and associated outlets act as both producers of counterfactual theories, as well as hubs around which individuals with similar beliefs rally. The damage that these ecosystems and the theories that they spawn can inflict on digital evidence is not based on the quality of the dis/misinformation that they produce but rather on the quantity.
  4. ^ a b Rudolph, Josh; Morley, Thomas (2020). "Media Outlets with Foreign Funding". German Marshall Fund of the United States: 40–48. JSTOR resrep26670.10. Archived from the original on April 4, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2022 – via JSTOR.
  5. ^ Andriukaitis, Lukas; Beals, Emma; Brookie, Graham; Higgins, Eliot; Itani, Faysal; Nimmo, Ben; Sheldon, Michael; Tsurkov, Elizabeth; Waters, Nick (September 2018). "Disinformation". Breaking Ghouta. The Atlantic Council. pp. 56–74. ISBN 978-1-61977-565-7. JSTOR resrep30699.12. OCLC 1088564125. Archived from the original on April 4, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2022 – via JSTOR.
  6. ^ Schafer, Bret (2019). Sultănescu, Dan (ed.). Tracking Russia's Digital Deception - Analysis of the Kremlin's Information Operations on Social Media. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics. Vol. 142. IOS Press. pp. 84–96. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-943-0-84. ISBN 978-1-61499-943-0. OCLC 1104855741. Archived from the original on July 2, 2022. Retrieved April 7, 2022. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  7. ^ Horawalavithana, Sameera; Ng, Kin Wai; Iamnitchi, Adriana (2020). "Twitter is the Megaphone of Cross-platform Messaging on the White Helmets". In Thomson, Robert; Bisgin, Halil; Dancy, Christopher; Hyder, Ayaz; Hussain, Muhammad (eds.). Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 12268. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 238–239. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61255-9_23. ISBN 978-3-030-61255-9. S2CID 222349352. Archived from the original on April 19, 2022. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
  8. ^ York, Chris (May 24, 2022). "The Pro-Russian Attempt to Link the Buffalo Shooting to Ukraine". New Lines Magazine. Archived from the original on May 24, 2022. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
  9. ^ Wedeen, Lisa (2019). Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria. University of Chicago Press. p. 89. ISBN 9780226650579. Archived from the original on May 13, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  10. ^ Horne, Benjamin D.; Nørregaard, Jeppe; Adalı, Sibel (April 2, 2019). Different Spirals of Sameness: A Study of Content Sharing in Mainstream and Alternative Media. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. AAAI. p. 261. OCLC 1106337185. Archived from the original on August 4, 2023. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference :4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).