List of satirical news websites

This is a list of notable satirical news websites which have a satirical bent, are parodies of news, or consist of fake news stories for mainly humorous purposes. For magazines published on paper, see List of satirical magazines.

Definition

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The best-known example is The Onion, the online version of which started in 1996.[1] These sites are not to be confused with fake news websites, which deliberately publish hoaxes in an attempt to profit from gullible readers.[2][3] News satire is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content. News satire is not to be confused with fake news that has the intent to mislead. News satire is 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.

List

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List of satirical news websites
Name Domain Country Founded
Adequacy.org adequacy.org United States 2001
Al-Hudood alhudood.net Jordan 2013
Awaze Tribune awazetribune.com Eritrea 2016
The Babylon Bee babylonbee.com United States 2016
Bbspot bbspot.com United States 2000
The Beaverton thebeaverton.com Canada 2010
The Betoota Advocate betootaadvocate.com Australia 2014
Borowitz Report borowitzreport.com United States 2001
The Burrard Street Journal burrardstreetjournal.com Canada 2015
The Chaser chaser.com.au Australia 1999
El Chigüire Bipolar elchiguirebipolar.net Venezuela 2008
The Civilian thecivilian.co.nz New Zealand 2013
ClickHole clickhole.com United States 2014
Cracked cracked.com United States 2007
Christwire christwire.org United States 2008
The Daily Bonnet dailybonnet.com Canada 2016
ungerreview.com
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 DailyER thedailyer.com United States 2008
De Speld speld.nl Netherlands 2007
The eXile exiledonline.com Russia 1998
Der Postillon der-postillon.com Germany 2008
Die Tagespresse[de] dietagespresse.com Austria 2013
Duffel Blog duffelblog.com United States 2012
El Koshary Today elkoshary.com Egypt 2008
Fognews fognews.ru Russia 2012
The Framley Examiner framleyexaminer.com United Kingdom 2001
Free Wood Post freewoodpost.com United States 2011
Hard Drive hard-drive.net United States 2017
The Hard Times thehardtimes.net United States 2014
Humor Times humortimes.com United States 1991
Huzlers huzlers.com United States 2014
Islamica News islamicanews.com United States 1999
Le Journal de Mourréal [fr] journaldemourreal.com Canada (Québec) 2012
Khabaristan Times khabaristantimes.com Pakistan 2014
Kyoko Shimbun [ja] kyoko-np.net Japan 2004
Landover Baptist Church landoverbaptist.org United States 1998
Le Gorafi legorafi.fr France 2012
Lark News larknews.com United States 2003
The Lemon Press thelemonpress.co.uk United Kingdom 2009
Lercio lercio.it Italy 2012
El Mundo Today elmundotoday.com Spain 2009
National Report nationalreport.net United States 2013
NewsBiscuit newsbiscuit.com United Kingdom 2006
NewsThump newsthump.com United Kingdom 2009
Njuz.net [sr] njuz.net Serbia 2010
Nordpresse [fr] nordpresse.be Belgium 2014
The Onion theonion.com United States 1996
The Oxymoron theoxymoron.co.uk United Kingdom 2007
The Poke thepoke.com United Kingdom 2002
Panorama panorama.pub Russia 2017
Private Eye private-eye.co.uk United Kingdom 1997[a]
Il Quotidiano Pazzo dailycrazy.com Italy 2007
Reductress reductress.com United States 2013
The Rochdale Herald rochdaleherald.co.uk United Kingdom 2016
SatireWire satirewire.com United States 2010
ScrappleFace scrappleface.com United States 2002
Sensacionalista [pt] sensacionalista.com.br Brazil 2009
The Fauxy thefauxy.com India 2018
Topeka News topekasnews.com United States 2008
The True North Times truenorthtimes.ca Canada 2014
The UnReal Times theunrealtimes.com India 2011
Timesnewroman.ro [ro] timesnewroman.ro Romania 2009
Walking Eagle News walkingeaglenews.com Canada 2017
Waterford Whispers News waterfordwhispersnews.com Ireland 2009
Weekly World News weeklyworldnews.com United States 2009
World News Daily Report worldnewsdailyreport.com Canada 2013
Zaytung zaytung.com Turkey 2010

Defunct

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Name Domain
The Daily Currant currantdaily.com
Faking News fakingnews.com
Southend News Network southendnewsnetwork.net

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Private Eye in printed magazine format existed before the website, and was founded in 1961.

References

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  1. ^ Keighley, Geoff (2003-08-28). "The Onion: Funny site is no joke - August 29, 2003". CNN. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  2. ^ Abby Ohlheiser (2016-11-18). "This is how Facebook's fake-news writers make money". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  3. ^ Joshua Gillin (2017-10-04). "The more outrageous, the better: How clickbait ads make money for fake news sites". Politifact. Retrieved 2018-08-08.