[justlurking]

There are genuinely "fake news" sites:

• Denver Guardian: phony story about dead FBI agent.
• Christian Times Newspaper: phony story about ballot boxes (and a very badly photoshopped image)
• Baltimore Gazette: phony story about riots in Charlotte.
• National Report: phony claim by Yoko Ono of an affair with Hillary Clinton.

To be fair: these sites run a smattering of real news stories to appear legitimate. But the operators seed these fake stories on social media, to draw clicks to their website and collect from the ad networks.

The operator of the Denver Guardian admitted to NPR that he was earning thousands of dollars/month.

National Report has become an outright parody/satire website like "The Onion". The masthead has a disclaimer, warning that any resemblance to the truth is coincidental.

However, this list published by the Washington Post is more likely filtered by political ideology, than "fake" or "real".

[Golden Eagle]

There are genuinely "fake news" sites

Glad you're here at FR to carry the mainstream media's narrative ahead for them. /s