RE:💥💥💥https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_News Natural News (formerly NewsTarget, which is now a separate sister site) is a far-right, anti-vaccination conspiracy theory and fake news website known for promoting alternative medicine, pseudoscience, and far-right extremism.[1][2][3][4]
The site's founder, Michael Allen "Mike" Adams, gained attention after posting a blog entry implying a call for violence against proponents of GMO foods, and then allegedly creating another website with a list of names of alleged supporters. He has been accused of using "pseudoscience to sell his lies".[5] Adams has described vaccines as "medical child abuse".[6]
The website sells various dietary supplements, promotes alternative medicine and climate change denial, makes tendentious nutrition and health claims,[7] disseminates fake news,[8][9][10][11][12] and espouses various conspiracy theories and pro-Donald Trump propaganda.[13][14] These conspiracy theories include chemophobic claims about the purported dangers of "chemtrails",[1] fluoridated drinking water,[15] anti-perspirants, laundry detergent, monosodium glutamate, aspartame, and vaccines.[1][7][16] It has also spread conspiracy theories about the Zika virus allegedly being spread by genetically modified mosquitoes[17] and purported adverse effects of genetically modified crops, as well as the farming practices associated with and foods derived from them.[18]
As of 2014, Natural News had approximately 7 million unique visitors per month.[4]
In May 2020, Facebook banned Natural News content from its platform after discovering that the site was boosting its popularity using content farms in North Macedonia and the Philippines, a form of spamming.[19] Natural News bypassed the ban by republishing its content on a large number of topic-specific domain names, including trump.news, extinction.news, mind.control.news, and veggie.news.[19][20] The Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 496 domain names associated with Natural News as of June 2020.[20][21]