Far-right monetary information weblog Zero Hedge, which lied about Fort Knox’s gold reserves and shares Russian state-media items, is reportedly the one new media outlet invited to the White Home’s Thursday press pool.
NBC information reporter Katherine Doyle shared the White Home press announcement right this moment, which listed Zero Hedge, run by Daniel Ivandjiiski, underneath “New Media” for right this moment’s press schedule. The White Home additionally listed ABC underneath “Radio,” TIME underneath “Print,” Reuters underneath “Wire,” and FOX underneath “TV.”
Zero Hedge is an X-based information aggregator and weblog with over 2 million followers that has been described as conspiratorial, a spreader of Russian propaganda, and a “perma bear” alarmist.
This February, numerous customers, together with Bitcoiners and Elon Musk, started to query if the Fort Knox gold reserves held 147.3 million ounces of gold because it claimed.
Zero Hedge stated there was no gold and that it hadn’t been checked, which baited Musk into questioning Fort Knox’s gold shops. The gold hadn’t disappeared and has been checked on ceaselessly, and publicly, for years.
In 2022, US intelligence officers accused Zero Hedge of sharing articles printed by Moscow-controlled media to an viewers unaware of the hyperlinks to Russia’s authorities.
The weblog denied claims from US officers whereas saying it publishes “a wide spectrum of views” and has “never worked, collaborated or cooperated with Russia.”
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Finnish social media researcher and creator of “Vatnick Soup,” Pekka Kallioniemi, detailed how Zero Hedge typically shares pro-Russian articles and referred to as it a “fake news blog.”
In a single occasion, Zero Hedge reportedly shared false photos of a Pentagon explosion (created with AI) that was additionally shared by the Russian state information outlet RT.
These characterizations, and the truth that Zero Hedge admits in a weird battle of curiosity web page that it’s “talking our book” and buying and selling the information it stories on, makes it a slightly becoming alternative for the Trump administration.
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