Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.

The New York Times ^ | March 7, 2024 | Steven Lee Myers

[jacknhoo]

Fake “Russian” News from the Miami Chronicle:
Zelensky and Mitsotakis Mark Attack That Killed Odesa Children
March 6, 2024
https://miamichroniclenews.com/2024/03/06/zelensky-and-mitsotakis-mark-attack-that-killed-odesa-children/

[wildcard_redneck]

Now you clowns are pushing Russian collusion again? They did this in 2015 and 2019. To us and now you creeps. Wastes of space.

[jacknhoo]

The D.C. Weekly
https://comixnow.com/category/dc-weekly/

[jacknhoo]

The New York News Daily - does not exist.

[jacknhoo]

The D.C. Weekly - Comics.
The New York News Daily - does not exist.
The Chicago Chronicle - only existed many years ago.
The Miami Chronicle - weird Pro-Ukrainian site.

So, there you go. Fake News.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Intelligence agencies plant an article saying all media they don’t control is RUZZIAN!!!

Zeepers lap it up like the sic pups they have become.

[grey_whiskers]

Sod off Glowie troll.

“Govt. Officials” were and are behind the witch hunts against Trump while defending the Biden crime familt.

[mac_truck]

Lol...imagine using the NYT as a source for a story about fake news.

Is that you Brian Stelter?

[joe fonebone]

You forgot...
New York Times
Washington Post
UP
People Magazine
Etc.....

[Socon-Econ]

What matters is not their location or ownership but whether they are reporting the truth. (Frankly, known dictator Putin is more believable than dictator wannabe Biden.) And are these Russian sources any less believable than the domestic news sites controlled by leftist one-worlders?

[Manic_Episode]

Can’t be any better than the CIA talking points diet they got us on now.

[Rdct29]

Sounds like the propaganda outlets, the NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek and all the other bullshit that’s posted here daily.

[dfwgator]

To liberals, any news they disagree with must be from the Russians.

[Socon-Econ]

To liberals, any news they disagree with must be from the Russians.
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And they could care less if the source was controlled by China, Venezuela, Quatar, or Soros.

[bimboeruption]

>Be on the lookout for these fake news sources and others on future posts and threads.<

The Enforcer
Joe Blogs
Denys Davydov

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "the filthiest discredited Mock News site in the world" (NYT)

One finds by the original poster: "Be on the lookout for the fake outlets mentioned in this story:"

1 - The D.C. Weekly
2 - The New York News Daily
3 - The Chicago Chronicle
4 - The Miami Chronicle.

So.... a "lookout" by looking behind the curtains....

1 - D.C. Weekly

whois query ofr DC Weekly
Domain: dcweekly.org
Registrar: Tucows Domains Inc.
Registered On: 2021-04-23
Registrant Contact Organization: 1337 Services LLC
State: Charlestown
Country: KN
( St. Kitts & Nevis, West Indies )

One notes that DC Weekly is a WordPress created website, and is incomplete, suggesting the webmaster hasn't even noticed: "Arutrum eu, convallis sit amet lacus. Duis enim velit, congue a semper a, hendrerit eget orci." Filler provided by the original template.

Source: "Contact" In fact the whole last column under "Legalese" is broken links. All for appearance, but with huge HTML mistakes.

2 - "The New York News Daily"

There is no "New York News Daily."

There is a "New York Daily News," but that is a long running newspaper, and a direct competitor to the NYTimes, in the NY area. whois query for nydailynews.com

Domain: nydailynews.com
Registrar: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
Registered On: 1995-03-27
Domain Administrator Organization: Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
Street: 560 W Grand Avenue
City: Chicago
State: IL

3 - Chicago Chronicle

whois query for Chicago Chronicle
Domain: chicagochronicle.com
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registered On: 2002-09-12
Registration Private Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC
Street: DomainsByProxy.com 2155 E Warner Rd
City: Tempe
State: Arizona

Publisher: Midwest Radio Network
Level 2, 111 Harrington Street
Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
www.midwestradionetwork.com

More: "Chicago Chronicle was conceived in September 2002 to provide up-to-the minute local news, together with national and international headlines as part of a global network pooling resources to deliver a quality service to member portals. Each online publication has been modelled on a newspaper format for familiar readability by users. The locations forming part of the network were selected on the basis of demand for news for that location. Chicago Chronicle, effectively an online newspaper, provides coverage of the city, and metro area. International news, business and finance stories are common across the network of sites, and are drawn from a number of sources including original in-house journalists and wire services.

"Chicago Chronicle and the other sites are administered by Midwest Radio Network.

"Associated sites include: Indianapolis Post | Kansas City Post | Milwaukee Sun | New York Telegraph | Cleveland Star | St Louis Star | The US News | Cincinnati Sun"

Source: About Chicago Chronicle

So AUSTRALIAN....

4 - Miami Chronicle -- website: miamichron.com

whois query for miamichron.com Domain: miamichron.com
Registrar: LiquidNet Ltd.
Registered On: 2024-02-26
Registrant Contact Name: Whois Agent LiquidNet US LLC
Organization: miamichron.com
Street: C/O miamichron.com
1500 N. University Drive, suite 115
City: Coral Springs
State: FL

Also humorously, the website builder for this utterly NEW site forgot to take the "Latin filler" out of their template. So in part one reads: "Arutrum eu, convallis sit amet lacus. Duis enim velit, congue a semper a, hendrerit eget orci." Source: About It is another WordPress template, quite akin to the DC Weekly, as above. The web builder screwed up. Probably didn't think someone would look that far into the site.

And their stated address is a rental "Executive Suites" location. One can rent an "office" 120 sp. ft. for $50 a year "per square foot." (Source, if you wish it.)

Alas, the NYTimes -- first source for this thread -- is historically tainted. One reads:

"In the 1930s, as now, an autocrat's decrees led to mass deaths of Ukrainian civilians and relied on misinformation to try to cover it up. Reporters, including Duranty, were censored and threatened. (A U.S. diplomat once wrote that Duranty told him his reports had to reflect "the official opinion of the Soviet regime.") Yet in a time before social media and the internet, foreign journalists were among the only ones who could get news out to the rest of the world.

"Duranty was The New York Times' man in Moscow, as the line went, with a cushy apartment in which to entertain expatriates and a reputation as a leading authority on the Soviet Union. Duranty had staked his name on the idea that Josef Stalin was the strong leader the communist country needed. He is often credited with coining the term 'Stalinism'."

'The New York Times' can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize NPR, May 8, 2022

How ‘The New York Times’ Helped Hide Stalin’s Mass Murders in Ukraine Tablet, 23 October 2020

And one might recall that the NYTimes promoted the 1619 Project..... Or as a prominent critic called it "junk history" and "revisionist."

The 1619 Project

In this case, the thread began with posting apparent NYTimes "fake" sites in reporting, but the article itself is quasi-fake. It's an interesting game. Who's tainted by association? Who's pure? So many tainted on ALL sides, as one reads more closely.

What one does NOT find are any links to TASS or Kyiv Independent or European press of any sort. Be on the lookout....

[FlyingEagle]

Are you actually citing the NYT as a source for spotting propaganda and fake news?

You do realize what site you are posting on today?

[Leep]

That made me lol.

[kiryandil]

What Nookie Haley doink?

[kiryandil]

I’m on the lookout for Neocon trash that never post about domestic US issues

If he posted about domestic issues, he'd get kicked off the site for his diehard NeverTrump nevertrumpingness.