TruNews
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Rick Wiles |
| URL | trunews |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | September 1998[3] |
| Current status | Active |
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| Antisemitism |
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TruNewsis an Americanfar-right[2]fake news website[1]and channel owned and hosted byRick Wiles.TruNewsfrequently publishesconspiracy theories[12][13][14]in addition toracist,anti-LGBT,antisemitic,andIslamophobiccontent.[11]It has been designated ahate groupby theSouthern Poverty Law Center.[15]
History
[edit]Wiles founded the organization asAmerica's Hopein September 1998 as aChristian ministrybased in theDallas–Fort Worth area.In the following months, Wiles toured the U.S. speaking of moral decline as he aimed to prevent "economic collapse" and "war on American soil". On May 24, 1999, the organization made its first radio broadcast. After five years of regular broadcasts, the news station briefly changed its name toAmerica Freedom News,before settling onTruNewsin 2004.[3]
In November 2019,TruNewswas temporarily suspended fromYouTubefor violating its rules on promotinghate speech.[16][17]Wiles has denied his rhetoric hasantisemiticintent and blamedGeorge Sorosfor organizing a campaign against him.[14]In February 2020,TruNewswas permanently banned from YouTube.[18]
Content
[edit]In October 2014,TruNewsurged that the spread ofEbola"could solve America's problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography and abortion".[19][20]In late January 2020, Wiles saidCOVID-19was God's "death angel" and "plagues are one of the last steps of judgment."[21]
TruNewsis known for promoting racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories. The website frequently described PresidentBarack Obamaas a "demon from hell".[7]Obama, he claimed while the former president was in office, was the "jihadist-in-chief" who was "waging jihad against the United States from inside the White House" and murdered Supreme Court JusticeAntonin Scaliaas a "pagan sacrifice".[22]
In 2017,TruNewsguests included someone who claimed PresidentBill Clintonwas a flesh-eating cannibal, leading to his contracting related diseases.[23]Another asserted that QueenElizabeth IIof the United Kingdom was a "lizard person" who hadDiana, Princess of Walesmurdered because the Princess was in the process of revealing that the Royal Family was involved in Satanism.[24]He also asserted that Israel and the "Jewish mafia" had PresidentJohn F. Kennedyassassinated. Another edition of Wiles' program claimed Israel and the "synagogue of Satan"are pushing the United States to fight wars on their behalf.[12]
OnTruNews,Wiles has asserted that the effects ofHurricane Harveyupon the city of Houston, Texas, in September 2017 resulted from Houston's "LGBTdevotion ";[25][26]has described Judaism and Islam as "theAntichrist";has called Central American immigrants a" brown invasion "being used by God to punish White Americans for legalabortion;[24]has claimed that the2017 Las Vegas shootingwas conducted by government death squads from a "gay / lesbian Nazi regime";[7]and, in July 2018, predicted an imminent coup (led by CNN'sAnderson Cooperand MSNBC'sRachel Maddow) that would result in the nationally televised decapitation of theTrump familyon the White House lawn.[24][27]
Wiles promotedantisemiticconspiracy theories ofJewish world dominationwhile discussing the 2019AIPACconference onTruNews.[28]In November 2019, he said that the congressional hearings concerning theimpeachment of Donald Trumpwere "infested with Jews" and constituted a "Jew coup".[17]He claimed: "That's the way the Jews work. They are deceivers. They plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda" and asserted the United States would reach a state of civil war before Christmas. Millions of Christians would be murdered by Jews as a result.[29]Of the hoaxProtocols of the Elders of Zion,Wiles said the authors had "accurately predicted what was going to happen in the world".[17]TruNewsand Wiles have also claimed that the transgender rights movement is a Zionist plot to make all of humanity androgynous, that this supposed plot was inspired by Talmudic and Kabbalistic doctrines, and that it involves "putting specific things in food, in drink".[30][18]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abSources describingTruNewsas a fake news website:[8][9][10][11]
- ^abSources describingTruNewsas far-right:[4][5][6][7]
- ^ab"About TruNews".TruNews.Archivedfrom the original on May 14, 2019.RetrievedJune 28,2019.
- ^Tebaldi, Catherine (May 27, 2021)."Speaking post-truth to power"(PDF).Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.43(3).Routledge:9.doi:10.1080/10714413.2020.1729679.ISSN1071-4413– viaORBilu.
Even more shockingly, perhaps is the headline from the far-right news source TruNews, "Rick Wiles: Liberals Intend to Put Conservatives in Concentration Camps." For the far right, schools are not just sites of liberal hegemony but indoctrination centers, camps, cultural marxist madrassas.
- ^Brown, Jeremy (July 7, 2022)."A Plague of Biblical Proportions: Jews and Judaism in the Age of COVID-19".The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19.Oxford University Press.p. 315.doi:10.1093/oso/9780197607183.003.0014.ISBN978-0-19-760718-3.RetrievedJanuary 13,2024– viaGoogle Books.
For American Jews, there was a locally grown accusation. It was made by Rick Wiles, the Florida-based founder and host of the far-right Christian channel called TruNews. Wiles blamed Judaism for the spread of coronavirus: "There is a plague moving upon the Earth right now, and the people that are going into the synagogues are coming out with the virus. You are under judgment because you oppose his son, Jesus Christ. That is why you have a plague in your synagogues." For good measure, Wiles also claimed that COVID-19 outbreak in the United States was started at the AIPAC conference.
- ^Chen, Yingying; Long, Jacob; Jun, Jungmi; Kim, Sei-Hill; Zain, Ali; Piacentine, Colin (January 30, 2023)."Anti-intellectualism amid the COVID-19 pandemic: The discursive elements and sources of anti-Fauci tweets".Public Understanding of Science.32(5).Sage:641–657.doi:10.1177/09636625221146269.ISSN0963-6625.PMC9892881.PMID36715354.
These include three far-right alternative news media with questionable credibility (The Colorado Herald, TruNews, and The Western Journal)...
- ^abcThebault, Reis (March 29, 2019)."News outlet that covered 'lizard people' and called Obama a demon just interviewed Trump Jr".The Washington Post.RetrievedNovember 27,2019.
TheTruNewsarchive reads like a greatest hits collection of far-right conspiracy theories, a veritable potpourri of Nazi references and fear mongering about secret cabals.
- ^Billard, Thomas J; Moran, Rachel E. (March 16, 2023)."Designing Trust: Design Style, Political Ideology, and Trust in" Fake "News Websites".Digital Journalism.11(3).Routledge:519–546.doi:10.1080/21670811.2022.2087098.ISSN2167-0811.RetrievedJanuary 12,2024– viaResearchGate.
Another such case was fake news website TruNews, which presented several stylistic features associated with the genre of "broadcast news outlet."
- ^Grinberg, Nir; Joseph, Kenneth; Friedland, Lisa; Swire-Thompson, Briony; Lazer, David (January 25, 2019)."Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election"(PDF).Science.363(6425).American Association for the Advancement of Science:374–378.Bibcode:2019Sci...363..374G.doi:10.1126/science.aau2706.ISSN0036-8075.PMID30679368.S2CID59248491.
- ^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.ISSN2673-8813.S2CID236598470.
- ^abPuente, David (June 1, 2021)."I giornalisti NoVax di TruNews ricoverati per Covid19. Il conduttore Rick Wiles si definiva un sopravvissuto del «genocidio vaccinale»"[TruNews NoVax journalists hospitalized for Covid19. Host Rick Wiles called himself a survivor of the "vaccine genocide" ].Open(in Italian).RetrievedJanuary 13,2024.
TruNewsè un canale televisivo online americano basato sulle notizie false e le teorie del complotto, ma non solo: tra i contenuti pubblicati troviamo omofobia, odio razziale e religioso, incluso l'antisemitismo. Il suo fondatore e proprietario, il pastore cristiano Rick Wiles, ha sostenuto la tesi degli Stati Uniti controllati da un gruppo di sionisti satanisti e le teorie del complotto sulla Covid19, soprattutto quelle NoVax, un'accozzaglia di contenuti comuni alla narrativa QAnon.
[TruNewsis an American online TV channel based on fake news and conspiracy theories, but not only that: among its published content we find homophobia, racial and religious hatred, including anti-Semitism. Its founder and owner, Christian pastor Rick Wiles, has supported the thesis of the U.S. being controlled by a group of Satanist Zionists and conspiracy theories on COVID-19, especially the NoVax ones, a hodgepodge of content common to the QAnon narrative.] - ^ab"TruNews and Rick Wiles: 'End Times' Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism".Anti-Defamation League.January 13, 2020.RetrievedFebruary 7,2020.
TruNews is a fundamentalist Christian streaming news and opinion platform that has increasingly featured anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist content, and also has a long record of disseminating radical Islamophobic and anti-LGBTQ messages.
- ^Sravasti Dasgupta (October 21, 2021)."Right-wing radio host says Covid vaccines hatch eggs that grow into synthetic parasites within body as part of coup d'etat by 'evil cabal'".The Independent.RetrievedJuly 9,2023.
Mr Wiles has used the TruNews platform to peddle conspiracy theories and push racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic content.
- ^abMichael M. Grynbaum (January 26, 2020)."Site That Ran Anti-Semitic Remarks Got Passes for Trump Trip".New York Times.RetrievedJuly 9,2023.
TruNews, which Mr. Wiles founded as an online radio program in 1999 called America's Hope, has a history of spreading conspiracy theories and proclaiming an imminent apocalypse. I
- ^"Hate Map".
- ^Rudoren, Jodi (November 27, 2019)."Far-Right Pastor Calls Impeachment A 'Jew Coup,' Begs Trump To 'Wake Up'".Forward.RetrievedNovember 27,2019.
- ^abcMacGuill, Dan (November 27, 2019)."Did Pastor Rick Wiles Call Trump Impeachment a 'Jew Coup'?".Snopes.RetrievedDecember 9,2019.
- ^abSlisco, Aila (February 20, 2020)."YouTube Bans Anti-Semitic ChannelTruNewsAfter Founder Calls Trump Impeachment 'Jew Coup'".Newsweek.RetrievedFebruary 21,2020.
- ^Martinez, Michael (October 18, 2014)."What's more disturbing than Ebola? The outrageous commentary".CNN.RetrievedNovember 27,2019.
- ^Stein, Nat (October 16, 2014)."Statetap: Evangelicals for Ebola; Snoop Dogg for Dunafon".The Colorado Independent.RetrievedJanuary 30,2021.
- ^Lemon, Jason (January 28, 2020)."Christian Pastor Claims Coronavirus is God's 'Death Angel,' Blames Parent's 'Transgendering Little Children'".Newsweek.RetrievedFebruary 7,2020.
- ^Malaea, Marika (November 18, 2019)."Florida Pastor Rick Wiles Claims Barack Obama is Anonymous Author of 'A Warning'".Newsweek.RetrievedNovember 27,2019.
- ^Mantyla, Kyle (May 8, 2017)."Just Another Day On Trunews: Queen Elizabeth Is A Satanist Lizard And Bill Clinton Is A Cannibal".Right Wing Watch.RetrievedJanuary 30,2021.
- ^abcElfrink, Tim (September 27, 2018)."Trump Takes Question From Racist, Homophobic Florida Conspiracy Website".Miami New Times.RetrievedNovember 27,2019.
- ^Pasha-Robinson, Lucy (September 6, 2017)."Gay people to blame for Hurricane Harvey, say evangelical Christian leaders".The Independent.London.RetrievedNovember 27,2019.
- ^Mantyla, Kyle (August 30, 2017)."Rick Wiles: Hurricane Harvey Is Punishment For Houston's 'Affinity For The Sexual Perversion Movement'".Right Wing Watch.RetrievedJanuary 13,2024.
- ^Williams, James (July 23, 2018)."Florida Talk Show Host Rick Wiles 'We Are 72 Hours Away From An Attack On The White House.'".News Talk Florida.RetrievedNovember 30,2019.
- ^Jensen, Tasia (March 28, 2019)."Far-Right Show TruNews Fearmongers: You're Going to See 'Christianity Become Criminalized'".Daily Beast.RetrievedApril 5,2019.
- ^"'There Will Be a Purge:' U.S. Pastor Warns of 'Jew Coup' to Impeach Trump ".Haaretz.November 27, 2019.RetrievedNovember 27,2019.
- ^Mantyla, Kyle (February 14, 2020)."TruNews: Zionism Is Using the Transgender Rights Movement to Make All of Humanity Androgynous".Right Wing Watch.