These Fake Local News Sites Have Confused People For Years. We Found Out Who Created Them.

By: Robert Washburn | February 13, 2020

Alex Merto for BuzzFeed News Jay Pinho and his wife, Victoria, rely on Google Alerts to track the public appearances of US Supreme Court justices on their website, SCOTUS Map . But late last year, the results began to worry them. “A crop of news [website] domains were popping […]

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