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--- "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....