Despite being full of crazy headlines, spoof website TheLastLineOfDefense.org (tagline America’s Last Line of Defense) continues to be mistaken for a legitimate source for political news.
The latest viral fake news “spoof” website aimed at tricking readers with on-the-cusp-of-believability headlines is aimed squarely at those with a disdain towards the US Democratic political party.
The plethora of articles its publishes – the vast majority of which attack Democratic politicians such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi – has shot the spoof website up to the top 100,000 websites on the Internet (at the time of writing, according to website stat site Alexa.) That’s quite an impressive tally with over 1 billion websites on the Internet. Especially considering the site was only registered in 2016.
Even more staggering considering the website publishes exclusively fake news and they even concede as much in their About disclaimer, that reads –
All articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney. Pictures that represent actual people should be considered altered and not in any way real.
For many, satire may be a bit of a stretch. Unless we broaden the definition of satire to any piece of fake news capable of fooling someone into believing it is true.
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Past headlines the site has managed to get viral include –
Lady Gaga arrested for Twitter attack on Melania Trump
BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi Was Just Taken From Her Office In Handcuffs
BREAKING: Obama Daughters BUSTED–Dad Has To Bail Them Out Of Jail At 3AM
BREAKING: 2 Liberal Democrat Congressmen Arrested For Planning Trump’s Assassination
The spoof website is currently one of the most encountered sites in the fact-checking industry, with many of its stories going viral across social media at any one time.
Of course this is all great news for those that operate the website, which is undoubtedly accumulating plenty of online advertising revenue by tricking people with spoof news.
How these sites will continue to perform once Facebook implement their fake news tools to help users tag specific stories shared on the site as disputed remains to be seen.