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'''''The Gateway Pundit''''' is a [[Far right in the United States|far-right]]<ref name=Inside>{{Cite news|url=http://uk.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-facebook-twitter-google-2017-10?r=US&IR=T|title=Fake news about the Las Vegas shooting spread wildly on Facebook, Google, and Twitter|work=Business Insider|access-date=2017-10-07|language=en|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007170509/http://uk.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-facebook-twitter-google-2017-10?r=US&IR=T|archivedate=2017-10-07|df=}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/15/media/far-right-blames-fbi-florida-shooting/index.html|title=Far-right says FBI, distracted by Russia probe, missed warning signs in Florida shooting|last=Gold|first=Oliver Darcy and Hadas|date=|work=CNNMoney|access-date=2018-02-15|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|quote=The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for peddling misinformation and conspiracy theories}}</ref> [[fake news website]].<ref name=Inside/><ref name=":6">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html|title=Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|date=2018-02-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-02-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="Croucher_10/31/2018">{{cite web |last=Croucher |first=Shane |date=October 31, 2018 |title=Who Is Jacob Wohl? Pro-Trump Twitter Personality Mocked Over Fake Mueller Sexual Assault Allegations |website=[[Newsweek]] |url=https://www.newsweek.com/who-jacob-wohl-pro-trump-twitter-personality-mocked-over-fake-mueller-sex-1194630 |accessdate=November 1, 2018 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/mueller-refers-sex-assault-scheme-targeting-him-fbi-investigation-n926301]</ref> It was founded after the [[United States presidential election, 2004|2004 United States presidential election]],<ref name="New York Times - Rutenberg">{{cite news|last1=Rutenberg|first1=Jim|title='Alternative Facts' and the Costs of Trump-Branded Reality|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html?_r=0|accessdate=1 February 2017|publisher=The New York Times|date=22 January 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729023743/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html?_r=0|archivedate=29 July 2017|df=}}</ref> according to its founder, Jim Hoft, to "speak the truth" and to "expose the wickedness of the left".<ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/jim-hoft-conservative-blogger-comes-out-as-gay-aft/|title=Jim Hoft, conservative blogger, comes out as gay after Orlando terror attack|last=|first=|date=|work=The Washington Times|access-date=2017-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502130802/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/jim-hoft-conservative-blogger-comes-out-as-gay-aft/|archive-date=2017-05-02|dead-url=no|language=en-US|df=}}</ref> It came to prominence in 2016 for its favorable coverage of [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|Donald Trump's presidential campaign]], and was later granted press credentials in the Trump White House.<ref name="NYT_T100_Gateway_Credentials"/> The website is known for publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.<ref name=":6"/><ref name=Inside/><ref name=":5" /><ref name=LasVegas>{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/media/facebook-google-misinformation-las-vegas/index.html|title=Google, Facebook help spread bad information after Las Vegas attack|last=Darcy|first=Oliver|work=CNNMoney|access-date=2017-10-07|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005040849/http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/media/facebook-google-misinformation-las-vegas/index.html|archivedate=2017-10-05|df=}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-may-come-face-to-face-with-cruz-in-puerto-rico-after-days-of-attacking-the-mayor/2017/10/02/ddddab5e-a790-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html|title=Trump may come face-to-face with Cruz in Puerto Rico after days of attacking the mayor|last=Phillip|first=Abby|date=2017-10-02|work=Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007172238/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-may-come-face-to-face-with-cruz-in-puerto-rico-after-days-of-attacking-the-mayor/2017/10/02/ddddab5e-a790-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html|archive-date=2017-10-07|dead-url=no|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|quote=In other tweets, Trump Jr. retweeted an article from a right-wing site known for trafficking in falsehoods, Gateway Pundit|df=}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/31/how-conservative-media-reacted-to-the-mueller-indictments/|title='This is a nothing burger': How conservative media reacted to the Mueller indictments|last=Rosenberg|first=Eli|date=2017-10-31|work=Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-31|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031063403/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/31/how-conservative-media-reacted-to-the-mueller-indictments/|archivedate=2017-10-31|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/trump-tweets-spygate-strzok-page-gateway-pundit-conspiracy-5fa36da4-d07a-454b-8aba-4e30fe5fc651.html|title=Go deeper: Digging into Trump's latest "Spygate" tweet|last=|first=|date=|website=Axios|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-06-07|quote=Gateway Pundit — a far-right, pro-Trump website known for often promoting thinly-sourced and false stories}}</ref>
'''''The Gateway Pundit''''' is an American [[Far right in the United States|far-right]]<ref name=Inside>{{Cite news|url=http://uk.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-facebook-twitter-google-2017-10?r=US&IR=T|title=Fake news about the Las Vegas shooting spread wildly on Facebook, Google, and Twitter|work=Business Insider|access-date=2017-10-07|language=en|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007170509/http://uk.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-facebook-twitter-google-2017-10?r=US&IR=T|archivedate=2017-10-07|df=}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/15/media/far-right-blames-fbi-florida-shooting/index.html|title=Far-right says FBI, distracted by Russia probe, missed warning signs in Florida shooting|last=Gold|first=Oliver Darcy and Hadas|date=|work=CNNMoney|access-date=2018-02-15|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|quote=The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for peddling misinformation and conspiracy theories}}</ref> News and opinion website. It has been described as a [[fake news website]].<ref name=Inside/><ref name=":6">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html|title=Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|date=2018-02-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-02-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="Croucher_10/31/2018">{{cite web |last=Croucher |first=Shane |date=October 31, 2018 |title=Who Is Jacob Wohl? Pro-Trump Twitter Personality Mocked Over Fake Mueller Sexual Assault Allegations |website=[[Newsweek]] |url=https://www.newsweek.com/who-jacob-wohl-pro-trump-twitter-personality-mocked-over-fake-mueller-sex-1194630 |accessdate=November 1, 2018 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/mueller-refers-sex-assault-scheme-targeting-him-fbi-investigation-n926301]</ref> by many sources. It was founded after the [[United States presidential election, 2004|2004 United States presidential election]],<ref name="New York Times - Rutenberg">{{cite news|last1=Rutenberg|first1=Jim|title='Alternative Facts' and the Costs of Trump-Branded Reality|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html?_r=0|accessdate=1 February 2017|publisher=The New York Times|date=22 January 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729023743/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html?_r=0|archivedate=29 July 2017|df=}}</ref> according to its founder, Jim Hoft, to "speak the truth" and to "expose the wickedness of the left".<ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/jim-hoft-conservative-blogger-comes-out-as-gay-aft/|title=Jim Hoft, conservative blogger, comes out as gay after Orlando terror attack|last=|first=|date=|work=The Washington Times|access-date=2017-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502130802/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/jim-hoft-conservative-blogger-comes-out-as-gay-aft/|archive-date=2017-05-02|dead-url=no|language=en-US|df=}}</ref> It came to prominence in 2016 for its favorable coverage of [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|Donald Trump's presidential campaign]], and was later granted press credentials in the Trump White House.<ref name="NYT_T100_Gateway_Credentials"/> The website is known for publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.<ref name=":6"/><ref name=Inside/><ref name=":5" /><ref name=LasVegas>{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/media/facebook-google-misinformation-las-vegas/index.html|title=Google, Facebook help spread bad information after Las Vegas attack|last=Darcy|first=Oliver|work=CNNMoney|access-date=2017-10-07|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005040849/http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/media/facebook-google-misinformation-las-vegas/index.html|archivedate=2017-10-05|df=}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-may-come-face-to-face-with-cruz-in-puerto-rico-after-days-of-attacking-the-mayor/2017/10/02/ddddab5e-a790-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html|title=Trump may come face-to-face with Cruz in Puerto Rico after days of attacking the mayor|last=Phillip|first=Abby|date=2017-10-02|work=Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007172238/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-may-come-face-to-face-with-cruz-in-puerto-rico-after-days-of-attacking-the-mayor/2017/10/02/ddddab5e-a790-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html|archive-date=2017-10-07|dead-url=no|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|quote=In other tweets, Trump Jr. retweeted an article from a right-wing site known for trafficking in falsehoods, Gateway Pundit|df=}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/31/how-conservative-media-reacted-to-the-mueller-indictments/|title='This is a nothing burger': How conservative media reacted to the Mueller indictments|last=Rosenberg|first=Eli|date=2017-10-31|work=Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-31|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031063403/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/31/how-conservative-media-reacted-to-the-mueller-indictments/|archivedate=2017-10-31|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/trump-tweets-spygate-strzok-page-gateway-pundit-conspiracy-5fa36da4-d07a-454b-8aba-4e30fe5fc651.html|title=Go deeper: Digging into Trump's latest "Spygate" tweet|last=|first=|date=|website=Axios|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-06-07|quote=Gateway Pundit — a far-right, pro-Trump website known for often promoting thinly-sourced and false stories}}</ref>


''The Gateway Pundit'' expanded from a one-person enterprise into a multi-employee operation that is supported primarily by [[online advertising|advertising]] revenue.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-advertiser-boycotts-20170610-story.html|title=Advertisers are in the hot seat as activists both for and against Trump call for boycotts|last=|first=|date=|website=latimes.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-03-17}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> During the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 U.S. presidential campaign]], the site received over a million unique visitors per day.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps|title=Is Trump Trolling the White House Press Corps?|website=The New Yorker|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504044314/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps|archivedate=2017-05-04|deadurl=no|access-date=2017-05-02|df=}}</ref> ''The Gateway Pundit'' is often linked to or cited by [[Fox News]] commentator [[Sean Hannity]], as well as the [[Drudge Report]], [[Sarah Palin]], and other well-known conservative people and media outlets.<ref name="NYT_T100_Gateway_Credentials">{{citation|title=White House Grants Press Credentials to a Pro-Trump Blog|date=13 February 2017|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html|author=Michael M. Grynbaum|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=14 February 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214031407/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html|archivedate=14 February 2017|df=}}</ref>
''The Gateway Pundit'' expanded from a one-person enterprise into a multi-employee operation that is supported primarily by [[online advertising|advertising]] revenue.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-advertiser-boycotts-20170610-story.html|title=Advertisers are in the hot seat as activists both for and against Trump call for boycotts|last=|first=|date=|website=latimes.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-03-17}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> During the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 U.S. presidential campaign]], the site received over a million unique visitors per day.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps|title=Is Trump Trolling the White House Press Corps?|website=The New Yorker|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504044314/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps|archivedate=2017-05-04|deadurl=no|access-date=2017-05-02|df=}}</ref> ''The Gateway Pundit'' is often linked to or cited by [[Fox News]] commentator [[Sean Hannity]], as well as the [[Drudge Report]], [[Sarah Palin]], and other well-known conservative people and media outlets.<ref name="NYT_T100_Gateway_Credentials">{{citation|title=White House Grants Press Credentials to a Pro-Trump Blog|date=13 February 2017|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html|author=Michael M. Grynbaum|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=14 February 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214031407/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html|archivedate=14 February 2017|df=}}</ref>

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Gateway Pundit
Type of site
Political blog
Available inEnglish
Created byJim Hoft[1]
EditorJim Hoft
URLwww.thegatewaypundit.com
Launched2004; 20 years ago (2004)

The Gateway Pundit is an American far-right[2][3] News and opinion website. It has been described as a fake news website.[2][4][5][6] by many sources. It was founded after the 2004 United States presidential election,[7] according to its founder, Jim Hoft, to "speak the truth" and to "expose the wickedness of the left".[8] It came to prominence in 2016 for its favorable coverage of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and was later granted press credentials in the Trump White House.[9] The website is known for publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.[4][2][3][10][11][12][13]

The Gateway Pundit expanded from a one-person enterprise into a multi-employee operation that is supported primarily by advertising revenue.[14][15] During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, the site received over a million unique visitors per day.[16] The Gateway Pundit is often linked to or cited by Fox News commentator Sean Hannity, as well as the Drudge Report, Sarah Palin, and other well-known conservative people and media outlets.[9]

History

The website's name makes reference to the Gateway Arch in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, where Hoft resides as of February 2018.[17]

White House press credentials

In February 2017, founder Jim Hoft and The Gateway Pundit's Lucian Wintrich, a 28-year-old writer and artist, were granted White House press credentials. Wintrich has collaborated with Milo Yiannopoulos, former editor at Breitbart News.[18][9]

As official correspondents, Hoft and Wintrich can now attend all press briefings and address their questions to the White House press secretary. In an interview, Wintrich described how they will "be reporting far more fairly than a lot of the very left-wing outlets that are currently occupying the briefing room. We will be doing a little trolling of the media in general here".[9] According to Wintrich, The Gateway Pundit's mission in the White House is "to help drain the press swamp" by covering the press corps' "very leftist and biased reporting",[15] and to alleviate what he sees as bias among reporters in the White House press corps.[18]

False stories and conspiracy theories

The Gateway Pundit is known as a source of viral falsehoods and hoaxes.[11][12][3] As a result of a number of lawsuits against The Gateway Pundit over its false stories, it was reported in March 2018 that Jim Hoft had told his writers to be more careful, saying "I don't want any more lawsuits so we have to be really careful with what we put up."[19] Hoft stated that he believes the lawsuits "are part of a multi-pronged effort to attack media outlets on the right."[19]

2016 election

The Gateway Pundit has promoted false rumors about voter fraud and Hillary Clinton's health.[9][20][21][22] Specifically, rumors of Hillary Clinton's poor health were disseminated via The Gateway Pundit's articles entitled, "BREAKING: 71% of Doctors Say Hillary Health Concerns Serious, Possibly Disqualifying!" and "Wow! Did Hillary Clinton Just Suffer a Seizure on Camera?"[20][22] As to voter fraud, The Gateway Pundit published an unsubstantiated report during the 2016 presidential election from the Internet Research Agency claiming that Republicans had accused Broward County, Florida officials of tampering with mail-in ballots.[23]

Misidentifying shooters and terrorists

The Gateway Pundit has a record of misidentifying perpetrators of shootings and terror attacks.[24]

In October 2017, The Gateway Pundit published an article falsely implicating an innocent person as the shooter in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. The article was promoted by Google as a "top story" for searches for his name.[25] Gateway Pundit asserted that New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi had reported that ISIS may have evidence that it was behind the shooting, but Callimachi rejected that she had ever made such an assertion.[26]

Shortly after the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, in which a person drove a vehicle into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one, The Gateway Pundit falsely identified a young man from Michigan as the driver. Together with his father, the Michigan man has filed a large defamation lawsuit against twenty-two corporate and individual defendants, including Hoft, alleging that the false identification caused motivated readers to harass him, that the harassment included numerous death threats, which obliged him to go leave his home (pursuant to advice from the police) and causing large damages to his business.[27][28]

The Gateway Pundit promoted conspiracy theories about Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.[29] In February 2018, The Gateway Pundit published an article erroneously stating that school shooter Nikolas Cruz was a registered Democrat, citing a registered Broward County voter with a similar name. The website later corrected its mistake.[30][4] Later that month, Gateway Pundit was one of a number of far-right websites that pushed the claim that at least one of the teenage survivors of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting was a deep state pawn,[31] alleging that David Hogg's gun control activism was being coached by his retired FBI agent father.[32]

In July 2018, Gateway Pundit falsely claimed that a man arrested with bomb-making equipment and illegal weapons had been a "leftist antifa terrorist".[33] The individual in question was however a conservative whose Facebook profile was littered with pro-Second Amendment memes.[33]

In August 2018, Gateway Pundit falsely identified a Reddit user as the perpetrator of the Jacksonville Landing shooting.[34]

Other

In December 2017, The Gateway Pundit published a Reddit post as evidence that Democratic activists were committing voter fraud in the 2017 Alabama Senate special election.[35] The redditor behind the post later said that the post was intended "as an obvious troll."[35] When asked by the Washington Post, the writer of the Gateway Pundit post declined to say whether he had contacted the redditor to verify the information; later the Gateway Pundit story contained an update at the bottom: "Liberals say these are fake Reddit posts(?) Regardless, the posts are still up on Reddit and the posters are still encouraging Democrats to cheat."[35] Also in December 2017, Gateway Pundit published a story falsely saying that Facebook had taken down a previous Gateway Pundit story about the Alabama election, when in fact a Facebook algorithm had made it less prevalent after it had been flagged as fake news.[36]

In April 2018, The Gateway Pundit falsely claimed in a headline that two prominent African-American conservative video bloggers – Diamond and Silk – had been censored by Facebook.[37]

In September 2018, after college professor Christine Blasey Ford alleged that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the 1980s when they were teenagers, The Gateway Pundit published an article[38] erroneously claiming that Kavanaugh's mother, a district court judge in Maryland, had once ruled in a foreclosure case against Dr. Ford's parents, creating what The Gateway Pundit called "bad blood" between the two families. In an update, The Gateway Pundit noted, "CBS News reports the case was settled amicably and the Blaseys kept their house."[39]

On October 30, 2018, NBC News and The Atlantic published articles detailing a purported scheme to falsely accuse Robert Mueller of sexual misconduct in 1974. The articles reported involvement by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, the latter a writer for Gateway Pundit. Hours after these reports, Gateway Pundit published on its site "exclusive documents" about a "very credible witness" to support the accusations against Mueller. Each document had in its header the phrase "International Private Intelligence," the business slogan of Surefire Intelligence, a firm created by Wohl. The site removed the documents later that day, stating they were investigating the matter, as well as "serious allegations against Jacob Wohl." The following day, Gateway Pundit's owner Jim Hoft retweeted a tweet by Wohl that suggested Mueller's office was actually behind the purported scheme. Mueller's office had days earlier referred the purported scheme to the FBI. Burkman and Wohl convened a press conference outside Washington on November 1st, ostensibly to present a woman who they said signed an affidavit, which Gateway Pundit had published, accusing Mueller of raping her in a New York hotel room in 2010 — on a date he was contemporaneously reported by The Washington Post [40] to be serving jury duty in Washington. The men accused Mueller's office of "leaking" the eight year-old Post story to discredit their allegations. The purported accuser, a Carolyne Cass, did not appear at the press conference, with the men asserting she had panicked in fear of her life and taken a flight to another location. Soon after the press conference, Hoft announced that Gateway Pundit had "suspended our relationship" with Wohl.[41][42][43][44][45]

Jim Hoft

Following the 2016 mass shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Hoft came out as gay, blamed Barack Obama for the massacre and derided "leftwing gay activists" Sally Kohn and Perez Hilton for blaming the National Rifle Association and Christianity for the attack.[8]

In February 2018, Hoft was scheduled to participate in a Conservative Political Action Conference panel titled "Social Media Censorship." After CPAC preemptively removed Hoft from the discussion on censorship following his coverage of the recent Florida mass shooting, Hoft stated that CPAC was in effect engaging in its own form of censorship.[46]

In August 2013, Hoft contracted a serious strep infection, lost vision in one eye, suffered five strokes, and had 12 hours of open-heart surgery. Three months following his treatment and after learning that he would be losing his health insurance, Hoft stated that it was the Affordable Care Act that has caused insurance companies to leave the marketplace in his home state of Missouri.[47]

Hoft was awarded the Reed Irvine Award for New Media by the Accuracy in Media watchdog at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2013.[48][49]

On March 4, 2017, Hoft spoke at the Spirit of America Rally in Nashville, Tennessee and announced that he was starting an event, "The Real News Correspondents' Dinner", to compete with the White House Correspondents' Dinner.[50] The event occurred as planned on April 28, 2017.[51]

References

  1. ^ Borchers, Callum (20 January 2017). "Blog known for spreading hoaxes says it will have a correspondent in Trump White House". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b c "Fake news about the Las Vegas shooting spread wildly on Facebook, Google, and Twitter". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2017-10-07. Retrieved 2017-10-07. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b c Gold, Oliver Darcy and Hadas. "Far-right says FBI, distracted by Russia probe, missed warning signs in Florida shooting". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2018-02-15. The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for peddling misinformation and conspiracy theories {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ a b c Grynbaum, Michael M. (2018-02-20). "Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  5. ^ Croucher, Shane (October 31, 2018). "Who Is Jacob Wohl? Pro-Trump Twitter Personality Mocked Over Fake Mueller Sexual Assault Allegations". Newsweek. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
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