We review two alternativemediasyndicate.com stories to help us determine if Alternative Media Syndicate is real, satire, or something else altogether!
Category: ClickBait
redrocktribune.com
Per their Facebook page: “The Red Rock Tribune is a conservative news and opinion website.”
newswire-24.com
NewsWire-24.com is based in the U.K. and geared mostly towards that audience. We looked at two stories, as best we could, to determine if it’s real or not. Read onward:
butthatsnoneofmybusiness.com
It’s clear that BTNOMB is primarily an entertainment site, filled with the sorts of “juicy” celeb stories that may or may not eventually be proven true — and by the time the gossip is proven, everyone has moved on to the next big story. But are they real? Satire? Or something worse?
naturalnews.com
If there’s some sort of civil unrest, impending cataclysm, or upcoming plague, NaturalNews.com is selling something for it. But are they real, satire, or something worse?
conservativeoutfitters.com
We actually commend Conservative Outfitters on their schtict. They sell clothes (and other things like coffee mugs, ‘museum quality’ artwork) on a nicely designed website that tries to draw a weak connection to a well established clothing store (Urban Outfitters) — all with conservative slogans, mantras, quotes, etc — while redistributing news from other Conservative outlets. Enrage the audience. Then…
24newsflash.com
24NewsFlash probably just gave up: abysmal Facebook engagements, no post or new article since August 2016, site traffic down. Our researching their site has probably been the highest traffic they’ve had in awhile. Anti-Hillary ClickBait at its most boring.
theamericantribune.org
Although The American Tribune homepage still has an ABOUT menu item, it’s a completely dead-link. theamericantribune.org/about or theamericantribune.org/about-us go to 404-error pages. Fortunately, their original About disclaimer was put up on http://archive.is/sYRvn: Satire sites are likely dropping in ad revenue, so we’ll wager a lot of sites will be removing their “satire” disclaimers. Beyond this fact, American Tribune has moved…
occupydemocrats.com
No one should look to occupydemocrats.com for unbiased news reporting — it’s in the name, after all. Calling them ‘bias’ is like calling our sun the closest star to Earth.
actualnews24.com
The title of the site itself shows that it’s trying too hard.
The site’s design, however, shows that their web designers aren’t trying hard enough.
But is it real? Or satire?