In 2017, reported that News Punch was “the new site for, which has been a prolific poster of misinformation and conspiracy theories.” Poynter reported that Your News Wire has been debunked 80 times, and PolitiFact gives that site a 69% “Pants on Fire” ranking. Evening Standard noted that he was also the founder and editor of Your News Wire and a former MTV producer. The author of the article on NewsPunch, Sean Adl-Tabatabai, was featured in an article by Evening Standard in 2017. What independent media outlets do you see purged in search results when you search for them? In addition, parts of the article appear to be opinion-based, with the author writing statements like, “DuckDuckGo’s search results have gon to s**t.”Įverything in the title is incorrect. The article includes some tweets from Weinberg, and none of those tweets say what the headline claims. Many people shared a post by one Twitter user, Chantal Gaultier, or even just shared a screenshot of the post.Īlthough the story is marked as “Fact checked,” Weinberg said the quote about him was completely made up and he never said he was purging independent media or would only allow MSM in search results. Weinberg Said the Headline from a NewsPunch Article Was ‘Completely Made Up’Ī NewsPunch story written in March had a headline that claimed “DuckDuckGo Announces Purge of Independent Media - ‘Only MSM Allowed.'” The story went viral about a month later after it began to be shared on social media. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that focuses on providing privacy and encryption to its users. Weinberg said a news story’s headline was misleading and “completely made up,” taking a statement he said about Russia out of context. Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO and founder of DuckDuckGo, took to Twitter to debunk claims that the search engine was going to purge independent media from search results. He recently took to Twitter to share that DuckDuckGo is not purging independent media sites. In this photo, CEO and founder of DuckDuckGo Gabriel Weinberg listens during a hearing in 2019.

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