Fake News: Bill Palmer and Palmer Report

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Report

The Palmer Report is an American liberal[2] fake news website,[3]
founded in 2016 by Bill Palmer.[4] It is known for making
unsubstantiated or false claims,[5] producing hyperpartisan
content,[6] and publishing conspiracy theories,[7][8] especially on
matters relating to Donald Trump and Russia.[14] Fact-checkers have
debunked numerous Palmer Report stories, and organizations including
the Columbia Journalism Review and the German Marshall Fund have
listed the site among biased websites or false content
producers.[15][16]

The Palmer Report is a hyperpartisan[6] liberal[2] fake news political
blog.[3] It is known for making unsubstantiated or false claims[5] and
publishing conspiracy theories,[7][8] especially on matters relating
to Donald Trump and Russia.[9][11][12][13] Articles from the Palmer
Report were shared almost exclusively by Hillary Clinton supporters
during the 2016 presidential election.[32]

In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations,
the Palmer Report was ranked the fourth least trusted news
organization by Americans
In an October 2020 study by the German Marshall Fund examining
misinformation on social media during the 2016 election, the Palmer
Report was one of the websites categorized as "false content
producers" or "manipulators".[16] The Palmer Report is labeled a
biased source in the Columbia Journalism Review's collected index of
"fake-news, clickbait, and hate sites".[15]

Journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept wrote that the Palmer
Report is "a classic Fake News site created by [...] a crazed
fanatical follower of Hillary Clinton who got caught purposely
disseminating fake news during the election"

David Greenberg, a professor of history and journalism, identified the
Palmer Report as a "junk-news" site and a source not to be
trusted.[57]

a long list of writers on its website, but as of 2017 many of them had
only written a single article for the site, and most of the content
appeared to have been written by Palmer himself.


the Palmer Report published two articles claiming that the election
was "rigged"[33] and falsely claimed 5,000 Trump votes in Wisconsin
were disqualified.

a fake news story from the Palmer Report spread online, alleging that
election officials were double-counting votes for Trump. The source of
the story was an unverified Facebook post. Election officials
dismissed the story, and the Wisconsin Elections Commission found no
evidence for the allegations.

the Palmer Report suggested, without evidence, that Trump spared the
runways of the Shayrat airfield due to Russian collusion.

In April 2017, the Palmer Report falsely claimed that the FBI had
intelligence that Russia was blackmailing Republican Representative
Jason Chaffetz.

a false claim that a grand jury had been impaneled in New York in
relation to the Special Counsel investigation; the source for the
claim was the Palmer Report

reported that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had ordered
Neil Gorsuch to recuse himself from all Trump-related Russia hearings,
with his only source being a "single tweet from an anonymous Twitter
account under the name 'Puesto Loco'".

published a story claiming that Jared Kushner had "secretly" flown to
Saudi Arabia The cited Politico article debunks the Palmer Report's
own story Snopes rated the Palmer Report's story as false.[46] A few
days after the story was published, Palmer acknowledged

In December 2020, the Palmer Report falsely reported that Colin Powell
had urged Michael Flynn to be put on "military trial for
sedition."[52]

Palmer Report's prediction that Susan Collins was "toast" in the 2020
United States Senate election in Maine – an election she won by nine
points – was named one of "The Worst Predictions of 2020"