Andover Massachusetts Merrimack College Assistant Professor of Communications Melissa “Mish” Zimdars has compiled a list of the controversial fake news websites. Below is her list that she is still updating.
More importantly both Google and Facebook say they have updated their policies to ban fake news sites from their advertising networks. Most of these fake news sites are generating revenue from Google’s Adsense Advertising Network or Facebook’s Audience Network. This change is hopefully a good step toward getting them to also add the mugshot and personal information disclosure sites to that list.