denver-guardian

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Via Denver Post:

The “Denver Guardian” is not a real news source and definitely isn’t Denver’s oldest news source.

On Nov. 5, a story began circulating on Facebook (at points gaining 100 shares per minute) with the headline “FBI AGENT SUSPECTED IN HILLARY EMAIL LEAKS FOUND DEAD IN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE,” and hosted at denverguardian.com.

The only problem is that there is no such thing as “The Denver Guardian.”

Let’s run down the list of red flags:

The domain denverguardian.com was first registered in July 2016 and is hosted by GoDaddy.

This story is the only story showing up under the “News” section and all other sections are turning up errors.

The address listed for the newsroom is a tree in a parking lot next to a vacant building on Colfax.

Half of the modules on the site are unfinished (see screenshot).

The site looks suspiciously like “The Baltimore Gazette,” another fake news site that The Baltimore City Paper called out in
September for sharing a false news story about police violence and breastfeeding.

This false story is one of thousands of fake news stories being circulated around Facebook by fly-by-night “hyperpartisan” sites this election cycle, according an investigation by Buzzfeed News.

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