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Don't tell YourNewsWire (or whatever the factual duck that site is called now), but there's a new(ish) fake news site stealing their thunder. Let's take a look at "The Washington Pundit" (thewashingtonpundit(dot)com).
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We downloaded tweets linking to thewashingtonpundit(dot)com, yielding 50750 tweets from 23400 accounts in the last 10 days. The site's "official" account, @TWPundit, is the largest node in the network.
Going further back, @TWPundit is also the first account ever to link to the site (back on Jan 11, 2018). The site receives random spikes in traffic starting in June 2018, with a high volume of steady activity beginning in January 2019.
What worldview does thewashingtonpundit(dot)com present? It's a lot like #QAnonsense disguised as a news site: multiple elite pedophile rings guarded by the Clintons with a dose of birtherism and Ilhan Omar conspiracy theories.
