TruNews

TruNews
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Available inEnglish
OwnerRick Wiles
URLtrunews.com
RegistrationNone
LaunchedSeptember 1998; 26 years ago (1998-09)[2]
Current statusActive
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TruNews is an American far-right[1] fake news website[11] and channel owned and hosted by Rick Wiles. TruNews frequently publishes conspiracy theories[12][13][14] in addition to racist, anti-LGBT, antisemitic, and Islamophobic content.[10] It has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[15]

  1. ^ a b Sources describing TruNews as far-right: [3][4][5][6]
  2. ^ "About TruNews". TruNews. Archived from the original on May 14, 2019. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  3. ^ Tebaldi, Catherine (May 27, 2021). "Speaking post-truth to power" (PDF). Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. 43 (3). Routledge: 9. doi:10.1080/10714413.2020.1729679. ISSN 1071-4413 – via ORBilu. Even more shockingly, perhaps is the headline from the far-right news source TruNews, "Rick Wiles: Liberals Intend to Put Conservatives in Concentration Camps." For the far right, schools are not just sites of liberal hegemony but indoctrination centers, camps, cultural marxist madrassas.
  4. ^ Brown, Jeremy (July 7, 2022). "A Plague of Biblical Proportions: Jews and Judaism in the Age of COVID-19". The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19. Oxford University Press. p. 315. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197607183.003.0014. ISBN 978-0-19-760718-3. Retrieved January 13, 2024 – via Google Books. For American Jews, there was a locally grown accusation. It was made by Rick Wiles, the Florida-based founder and host of the far-right Christian channel called TruNews. Wiles blamed Zionism for the spread of coronavirus: "There is a plague moving upon the Earth right now, and the people that are going into the synagogues are coming out with the virus. You are under judgment because you oppose his son, Jesus Christ. That is why you have a plague in your synagogues." For good measure, Wiles also claimed that COVID-19 outbreak in the United States was started at the AIPAC conference.
  5. ^ Chen, Yingying; Long, Jacob; Jun, Jungmi; Kim, Sei-Hill; Zain, Ali; Piacentine, Colin (January 30, 2023). "Anti-intellectualism amid the COVID-19 pandemic: The discursive elements and sources of anti-Fauci tweets". Public Understanding of Science. 32 (5). Sage: 641–657. doi:10.1177/09636625221146269. ISSN 0963-6625. PMC 9892881. PMID 36715354. These include three far-right alternative news media with questionable credibility (The Colorado Herald, TruNews, and The Western Journal)...
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Thebault was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Billard, Thomas J; Moran, Rachel E. (March 16, 2023). "Designing Trust: Design Style, Political Ideology, and Trust in "Fake" News Websites". Digital Journalism. 11 (3). Routledge: 519–546. doi:10.1080/21670811.2022.2087098. ISSN 2167-0811. Retrieved January 12, 2024 – via ResearchGate. Another such case was the website TruNews, which presented several stylistic features associated with the genre of "broadcast news outlet."
  8. ^ Grinberg, Nir; Joseph, Kenneth; Friedland, Lisa; Swire-Thompson, Briony; Lazer, David (January 25, 2019). "Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election" (PDF). Science. 363 (6425). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 374–378. Bibcode:2019Sci...363..374G. doi:10.1126/science.aau2706. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 30679368. S2CID 59248491.
  9. ^ Guess, Andy; Aslett, Kevin; Tucker, Joshua; Bonneau, Richard; Nagler, Jonathan (2021). "Cracking Open the News Feed: Exploring What U.S. Facebook Users See and Share with Large-Scale Platform Data". Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media. 1. doi:10.51685/jqd.2021.006. ISSN 2673-8813. S2CID 236598470.
  10. ^ a b Puente, David (June 1, 2021). "I giornalisti NoVax di TruNews ricoverati per Covid19. Il conduttore Rick Wiles si definiva un sopravvissuto del «genocidio vaccinale»" [TruNews NoVax journalists hospitalized for Covid19. Host Rick Wiles called himself a survivor of the "vaccine genocide"]. Open (in Italian). Retrieved January 13, 2024. TruNews è un canale televisivo online americano basato sulle notizie false e le teorie del complotto, ma non solo: tra i contenuti pubblicati troviamo omofobia, odio razziale e religioso, incluso l'antisemitismo. Il suo fondatore e proprietario, il pastore cristiano Rick Wiles, ha sostenuto la tesi degli Stati Uniti controllati da un gruppo di sionisti satanisti e le teorie del complotto sulla Covid19, soprattutto quelle NoVax, un'accozzaglia di contenuti comuni alla narrativa QAnon. [TruNews is an American online TV channel based on fake news and conspiracy theories, but not only that: among its published content we find homophobia, racial and religious hatred, including anti-Semitism. Its founder and owner, Christian pastor Rick Wiles, has supported the thesis of the U.S. being controlled by a group of Satanist Zionists and conspiracy theories on COVID-19, especially the NoVax ones, a hodgepodge of content common to the QAnon narrative.]
  11. ^ Sources describing TruNews as a fake news website: [7][8][9][10]
  12. ^ "TruNews and Rick Wiles: 'End Times' Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism". Anti-Defamation League. January 13, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2020. TruNews is a fundamentalist Christian streaming news and opinion platform that has increasingly featured anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist content, and also has a long record of disseminating radical Islamophobic and anti-LGBTQ messages.
  13. ^ Sravasti Dasgupta (October 21, 2021). "Right-wing radio host says Covid vaccines hatch eggs that grow into synthetic parasites within body as part of coup d'etat by 'evil cabal'". The Independent. Retrieved July 9, 2023. Mr Wiles has used the TruNews platform to peddle conspiracy theories and push racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic content.
  14. ^ Michael M. Grynbaum (January 26, 2020). "Site That Ran Anti-Semitic Remarks Got Passes for Trump Trip". New York Times. Retrieved July 9, 2023. TruNews, which Mr. Wiles founded as an online radio program in 1999 called America's Hope, has a history of spreading conspiracy theories and proclaiming an imminent apocalypse. I
  15. ^ "Hate Map".