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Natural News

Natural News
Type of site
Fake news website
Available inEnglish
Country of originUnited States
OwnerMike Adams
Created byMike Adams
URLnaturalnews.com
CommercialNutraceuticals
Launched2008

Natural News (formerly NewsTarget, which is now a separate sister site) is a far-right, anti-vaccination conspiracy theory and fake news website known for promoting alternative medicine, pseudoscience, disinformation, and far-right extremism.[1][9] The website began publishing articles in 2008 and is based in the United States.[1][6]

The site's founder, Michael Allen "Mike" Adams, gained attention after posting a blog entry implying a call for violence against proponents of GMO foods, and then allegedly creating another website with a list of names of alleged supporters. He has been accused of using "pseudoscience to sell his lies".[10] Adams has described vaccines as "medical child abuse".[11]

The website sells various dietary supplements, promotes alternative medicine and climate change denial, makes tendentious nutrition and health claims,[12] disseminates fake news,[20] and espouses various conspiracy theories and pro-Donald Trump propaganda.[21][22] These conspiracy theories include chemophobic claims about the purported dangers of "chemtrails",[5] fluoridated drinking water,[23] heavy metals, anti-perspirants, laundry detergent, monosodium glutamate, aspartame, and vaccines.[5][12][24] It has also spread conspiracy theories about the Zika virus allegedly being spread by genetically modified mosquitoes[25] and purported adverse effects of genetically modified crops, as well as the farming practices associated with and foods derived from them.[26]

As of 2014, Natural News had approximately 7 million unique visitors per month.[8]

In May 2020, Facebook banned Natural News content from its platform after discovering that the site was boosting its popularity using content farms in North Macedonia and the Philippines, a form of spamming.[27] Natural News bypassed the ban by republishing its content on a large number of topic-specific domain names, including trump.news, extinction.news, mind.control.news, and veggie.news.[27][28] The Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 496 domain names associated with Natural News as of June 2020 with Registered Agents Inc. serving as the registered agent for multiple Natural News-affiliated companies.[28][1]

  1. ^ a b c "Anatomy of a Disinformation Empire: Investigating NaturalNews". Institute for Strategic Dialogue. June 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  2. ^ Zeng, Jing; Schäfer, Mike S. (October 21, 2021). "Conceptualizing "Dark Platforms". Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab". Digital Journalism. 9 (9). Routledge: 1321–1343. doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1938165. In contrast, Gab users who shared more far-right "fake news" websites are relatively more visible on Gab. Some of the most cited sources under this category include the Unhived Mind (N = 2,729), Epoch Times (N = 1,303), Natural News (N = 1,301), Breitbart (N = 769), the Gateway Pundit (N = 422), and InfoWars (N = 656).
  3. ^ Lutzke, Lauren; Drummond, Caitlin; Slovic, Paul; Árvai, Joseph (September 2019). "Priming critical thinking: Simple interventions limit the influence of fake news about climate change on Facebook". Global Environmental Change. 58. Elsevier: 101964. Bibcode:2019GEC....5801964L. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101964. Retrieved February 17, 2022 – via National Science Foundation. The three fake news posts were drawn from websites of three different hyper-partisan media outlets: Breitbart, InfoWars, and Natural News. Each of these outlets is known for peddling in conspiracy theories and disinformation, and content from each is heavily biased in favor of an ultra-conservative political ideology (Marwick & Lewis 2017).
  4. ^ Guarino, Stefano; Pierri, Francesco; Di Giovanni, Marco; Celestini, Alessandro (March 1, 2021). "Information disorders during the COVID-19 infodemic: The case of Italian Facebook". Online Social Networks and Media. 22: 100124. doi:10.1016/j.osnem.2021.100124. ISSN 2468-6964. PMC 8479410. PMID 34604611. S2CID 232413008.
  5. ^ a b c Madrigal, Alexis C. (February 27, 2019). "The Small, Small World of Facebook's Anti-vaxxers". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  6. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Weill20190609 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Fake News Empire Exposed". Weather Channel. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  8. ^ a b Blake, Mariah (July 25, 2014). "Popular anti-science site likens journalists to "Nazi collaborators" over GMO coverage". Mother Jones. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
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  11. ^ Gumbel, Andrew (January 25, 2015). "Disneyland measles outbreak leaves many anti-vaccination parents unmoved". The Guardian. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  12. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Novella2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Owen, Laura Hazard (October 26, 2020). "Older people and Republicans are most likely to share Covid-19 stories from fake news sites on Twitter". Nieman Lab. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
  14. ^ Osmundsen, Mathias; Bor, Alexander; Vahlstrup, Peter Bjerregaard; Bechmann, Anja; Petersen, Michael Bang (May 7, 2021). "Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter". American Political Science Review. 115 (3). Cambridge University Press: 999–1015. doi:10.1017/S0003055421000290. ISSN 0003-0554. S2CID 235527523.
  15. ^ Ognyanova, Katherine; Lazer, David; Robertson, Ronald E.; Wilson, Christo (June 2, 2020). "Misinformation in action: Fake news exposure is linked to lower trust in media, higher trust in government when your side is in power" (PDF). Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. 1 (4). Shorenstein Center. doi:10.37016/mr-2020-024.
  16. ^ Guess, Andy; Aslett, Kevin; Tucker, Joshua; Bonneau, Richard; Nagler, Jonathan (2021). "Cracking Open the News Feed: Exploring What U.S. Facebook Users See and Share with Large-Scale Platform Data". Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media. 1. doi:10.51685/jqd.2021.006. ISSN 2673-8813. S2CID 236598470.
  17. ^ "Google delists Mike Adams' Natural News website. Was it because of fake news?". Science-Based Medicine. February 27, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  18. ^ Cite error: The named reference LeVine was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  19. ^ Lynas, Mike (November 27, 2017) "Anti-biotechnology fake news: 'Natural News' claims RNAi used to 'eliminate black people'", Genetic Literacy Project. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
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  21. ^ Beth Mole (June 10, 2019). "Facebook bans health and conspiracy site Natural News [Updated]: Conspiracist founder compares Zuckerberg to Hitler, urges Trump to declare war". Ars Technica.
  22. ^ Pearce, Matt (February 7, 2013). "Conspiracy theorists harassing, impersonating Aurora victims". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  23. ^ Cite error: The named reference crank was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  24. ^ Orac [David Gorski] (October 27, 2011). "Mike Adams vs. the flu vaccine". Respectful Insolence. ScienceBlogs. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  25. ^ Qui, Linda (February 9, 2016). "No evidence to support rumors tying Zika to genetically modified mosquitoes". Politifact. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  26. ^ Blum, Deborah (December 20, 2013). "An Honor for Elemental (the cyanide version)". Wired. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  27. ^ a b Funke, Daniel (June 5, 2020). "Health misinformation website rebrands as pro-Trump outlet to get around ban from Facebook". PolitiFact. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  28. ^ a b Heilweil, Rebecca (June 25, 2020). "Facebook's war against one of the internet's worst conspiracy sites". Vox. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
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