The Gateway Pundit is an American far-right news and opinion website. The website is known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories. It has been described by Newsweek as a fake news website and by CNN as a website “prone to peddling conspiracy theories”
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The Gateway Pundit is an American far-right news and opinion website. The website is known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories. In 2016, it provided favorable coverage of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and, after Trump’s election, was granted press credentials by the White House. During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, the site received over a million unique visitors per day. In February 2017, founder Jim Hoft and the website’s Lucian Wintrich, a 28-year-old writer and artist, were granted White House press credentials. The English Wikipedia community has depreciated the website as a source for reporting “falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and intentionally misleading stories” The website’s name makes reference to the Gateway Arch in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, where Hoft resides as of February 2018. It has been described by Newsweek as a fake news website and by CNN as a website “prone to peddling conspiracy theories” The Gateway Pundyit has a record of misidentifying perpetrators of shootings and terror attacks. In October 2017, it published an article falsely implicating an innocent person as the shooter in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. Shortly after the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in a vehicle into a crowd of counter-protesters, one man falsely identified a young man from Michigan as the driver.
After the misidentification took place, the Michigan man filed a defamation lawsuit against the publication and other related parties. On August 14, 2020, after President Trump called on invited reporter Alicia Powe for a question at his televised press briefing, White House Correspondents’ Association president told the Washington Examiner that including Powe as a guest was an “outrageous” violation of the group’s social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. In late 2019, the EnglishWikipedia community deprecated the site as a “source for reporting\” falsehoods and “intentionally misleading stories” The website promoted false rumors about voter fraud and Hillary Clinton’s health. It also falsely claimed that New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi had reported that ISIS may have evidence that it was behind the shooting, but Callachi denied that she had ever made such an assertion. The site later corrected its mistake, citing a similar name with a similar registered voter with a name similar to Nikolas Cruz.
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