Before It's News
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Before It's News is a citizen journalism outfit, where anyone can write something and have it go up. Or at least, that was the intention, as it was promptly flooded with conspiracy theorists and is now an outlet for an "unabashedly unhinged"[1] take on world events and religious prophecy. The advertising is for survivalist supplies.
The site is also used by some conspiracy theorists to promote their Youtube videos about various conspiracy theories. Some "articles" are just a single Youtube video.
The site was founded in 2008 by dot com investor and Falun Gong practitioner Chris Kitze.[2] Before It's News describes itself as "People Powered News®", and accepts stories from any political background, although its political stories are entirely from conservative viewpoints and BIN goes so far as to have a dedicated "Obama Birthplace Controversy" category. A significant amount of the site's content consists of bloggers reposting their stories with links back to their own site. There are also comments enabled for articles, which in themselves are a source of much humor, facepalming, and banging one's head on one's desk, though in some cases rationality and critical thinking manage to prevail.
The site also runs a podcast called BIN Radio. The Skeptical Humanities blog uses Before It's News as a rich source of idiocy for their "This Week In Conspiracy" series.
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- ↑ Washington Post, A comprehensive guide to the web’s many MH17 conspiracy theories
- ↑ Angela Wang. An American Business Owner’s Journey With Falun Dafa. The Epoch Times. 2012 August 8.