List of satirical news websites

This is a list of satirical news websites which are satirical bent, or parodies of news, which consists of fake news stories and other humor. They are not to be confused with fake news websites, which deliberately publish hoaxes in an attempt to profit from gullible readers.

Background

News satire, also called fake news, is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content. News satire is particularly popular on the web, where it is relatively easy to mimic a credible news source and stories may achieve wide distribution from nearly any site. News satire relies heavily on irony and deadpan humor.

The most well known example of this type of website is The Onion, the foremost among recognized news satire site due to its enduring and profitable business model was started in 1996.[1]

List

List of satirical news websites
Name Domain name Country Founded
Awaze Tribune awazetribune.com Eritrea 2016
Borowitz Report borowitzreport.com United States 2001
ClickHole clickhole.com United States 2014
Cracked cracked.com United States 2007
Christwire christwire.org United States ?
De Speld speld.nl Netherlands 2007
Der Postillon der-postillon.com Germany 2008
Duffel Blog duffelblog.com United States 2012
El Koshary Today elkoshary.com Egypt 2008
El Mundo Today elmundotoday.com Spain 2009
Faking News fakingnews.com India 2008
Fognews fognews.ru Russia ?
Free Wood Post freewoodpost.com United States 2011
Islamica News islamicanews.com United States 1999
Landover Baptist Church landoverbaptist.org United States 1998
Le Gorafi legorafi.fr France 2012
Lush for Life lushforlife.com United States 2005
National Report nationalreport.net United States 2013
NewsBiscuit newsbiscuit.com United Kingdom 2006
Private Eye private-eye.co.uk United Kingdom 1996
SatireWire satirewire.com United States 2010
ScrappleFace scrappleface.com United States 2002
St Neots Citizen stneotscitizen.com United Kingdom 2008
The Beaverton thebeaverton.com Canada 2010
The Betoota Advocate betootaadvocate.com Australia 2014
The Civilian thecivilian.co.nz New Zealand 2013
The Chaser chaser.com.au Australia 1999
The Daily Currant dailycurrant.com United States 2012
The Daily Mash thedailymash.co.uk United Kingdom 2007
The Daily Squib dailysquib.co.uk United Kingdom 2007
The Daily WTF thedailywtf.com United States 2004
The Onion theonion.com United States 1996
The Oxymoron theoxymoron.co.uk United Kingdom 2007
The Poke thepoke.co.uk United Kingdom 2002
The UnReal Times theunrealtimes.com India 2001
The Valley Report thevalleyreport.com United States 2015
Topeka News topekasnews.com United States ?
Waterford Whispers News waterfordwhispersnews.com Ireland 2009
Weekly World News weeklyworldnews.com United States 2009
Zaytung zaytung.com Turkey 2010

See also

References

  1. ↑ Geoff Keighley Business 2.0 (2003-08-28). "CNN.com - The Onion: Funny site is no joke - August 29, 2003". Edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 2015-11-22.

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