NewsPunch

NewsPunch is a Los Angeles-based fake news website known for spreading conspiracy theories, political misinformation, and hoaxes. Originally named Your News Wire, it was founded in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway. In November 2018, it rebranded itself as "NewsPunch", and began redirecting yournewswire.com traffic to newspunch.com. "Your News Wire" was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in "NewsPunch".
A 2017 "BuzzFeed News" report identified "NewsPunch" as being the second-largest source of popular fake stories spread on Facebook that year, and a June 2018 Poynter analysis identified "NewsPunch" as being debunked over 80 times in 2017 and 2018 by Poynter-accredited factcheckers such as Snopes, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and the Associated Press.
The European Union's East StratCom Task Force has criticized "NewsPunch" for spreading Russian propaganda, a charge Adl-Tabatabai denies.
Regular contributors to "NewsPunch" include Adl-Tabatabai, a former BBC and MTV employee from London previously an employee of conspiracy theorist David Icke, Adl-Tabatabai's mother Carol Adl, an alternative health practitioner, and Baxter Dmitry, who had previously been posing as an unrelated Latvian man using a stolen profile photo.
Fake news stories.
"NewsPunch" has published false stories, including: