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  • 2017-12-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Was One of Roy Moore's Accusers Arrested and Charged With 'Falsification'? (en)
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  • On 8 December 2017, a self-described satire website going by the name No Fake News Online published a story with the following headline: While the contents of the article are — despite the site's name and according to its disclaimer — made up, the headline plays on a controversy generated by Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson’s interview with ABC News, where she said that she had added notes under a yearbook inscription attributed to Moore: specifically, the date and location written under Moore’s signature. Fox News, in their coverage of this interview, tweeted (and then redacted) a shocking headline: Fox later deleted the tweet and substantially altered their coverage, appending an update to their story: While No Fake News Online uses a made-up name for the Roy Moore accuser in their story (Mary Lynne Davies) it clearly plays on this earlier controversy: No Fake News Online describes itself, however, as a whimsical playland of conservative satire, and their about page contains this disclaimer: However, not everyone takes the time to hunt down a disclaimer, and the types of sites that trawl the Internet for content and pick up stories such as these do not carry disclaimers at all, further spreading false and corrosive stories. No Fake News Online appears to be part of an ecosystem of conservative-targeted satire pages associated with sites like TheLastLineOfDefense.org (now defunct), AsAmericanAsApplePie.org, and FreedumJunkshun.com. In October 2017, Freedum Junkshun was forced to retract a hoax story that they ran claiming that Sgt. La David T. Johnson, who was one of four soldiers killed in Niger that month, had deserted his post days before the attack. (en)
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