Inside the spectacular fall of the granddaddy of right-wing conspiracy sites (i.e.,World Net Daily)

[hlthe2b]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/inside-the-spectacular-fall-of-the-granddaddy-of-right-wing-conspiracy-sites/2019/04/02/6ac53122-3ba6-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html?utm_term=.b9a483603179

In the feverish heyday of the “birther movement,” conspiracy-hungry readers swarmed to a website called WorldNetDaily for the latest on the specious yet viral theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

The site’s founder, Joseph Farah — a former newspaperman with a dense, jet-black mustache and a cloak-and-dagger mystique — boasted in 2010 that he was well on the way to generating $10 million a year in revenue. His Northern Virginia-headquartered news site, known by the acronym WND, was having its moment by stoking rumors about Obama.

But Farah — a conservative Internet pioneer who’d once been labeled by the Clinton White House as part of a right-wing media conspiracy and was known to sport a pistol on his hip in the office—saw bigger things. Years earlier he’d launched one of the first large-scale digital newsgathering operations; now he wanted to be a player in Christian-themed movies and book publishing, churning out titles by big-name conservatives, such as anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly and future House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). He was building an empire.
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Even though Farah claimed in WND columns and emails to supporters last year to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations —including tax-deductible contributions — some former employees and contractors have been laid off or had their deals canceled without being paid money they say they were owed. Many authors who signed on with the site’s publishing arm, including former Republican senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, are fuming about allegedly not receiving royalties owed to them.

worth a full read at the link above...

[Blue_Tires]

1. Stories like this give me life

[BootinUp]

14. IKR?

[hlthe2b]

2. How about some more schadenfreude love for the fate of WND? !

[MagickMuffin]

3. Kick to the top, since someone else posted the same article

I decided to kick yours since you posted 1st.


Glad to hear this grifter is being exposed!!!

[dlk]

4. If Ever a Fake News Site Deserved to Crash and Burn...

[TygrBright]

5. WorldNutDaily is GONE? Dayum!! When does Hannity verklump? n/t

[JDC]

6. More grift. That word is synonymous with today's "conservative"

"I'm not a con man, I'm a conservative!"

[playaseeker]

7. Don't RIP WND

Just go away

[Leith]

8. Rust in Piss, World Nut Daily

I just read his entry in RationalWiki. It's a laugh riot.

[Pepsidog]

9. Tom Coburn didn't get his royalty money makes me smile

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Out-crazied by alt-righters on social media, and from 2017 by the US President

Why visit a website for conspiracy theories and lies when the Orange Arse in the White House is spewing them on Twitter, and everyone reports them?

[TheBlackAdder]

11. WND contributors got the Sears, McDonalds, Olive Garden, Amazon treatment and they don't like it.

[leftynyc]

12. I laughed through that entire piece

Thanks for the pick me up.

[Blue_true]

13. A den of vipers fighting.

We should stay back until only one is alive, then spray gasoline into the pit and light a match.

[FakeNoose]

15. K & R Thanks

Bookmarking and saving for later.