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Congratulations Facebook for banning this fake news website.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/life-site-news/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/life-site-news/</a><br><br><h1 class="entry-title page-title" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:400;font-size:2.375rem;color:rgb(31,30,30);">LifeSiteNews
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QUESTIONABLE SOURCE

A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency, and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for profit or influence (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/2017...-wont-stop-the-spread-of-fake-news-heres-why/" style="font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">Learn More). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact-checked on a per-article basis. Please note sources on this list are not considered fake news unless specifically written in the reasoning section for that source. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fake-news/" style="font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">See all Questionable sources.

We rate LifeSiteNews far right biased for story selection that always favors evangelical Christianity and Questionable based on the promotion of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and many failed fact checks

Detailed Report

Questionable Reasoning: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, Failed Fact Checks
Bias Rating: RIGHTFactual Reporting: MIXEDCountry: Canada (16/180 Press Freedom)Media Type: WebsiteTraffic/Popularity: Medium TrafficMBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY

History
According to their https://www.lifesitenews.com/about" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;" rel="noreferrer noopener">about page, LifeSiteNews “is a non-profit Internet service dedicated to issues of culture, life, and family.” The https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/campaign-life-coalition/" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;">Campaign Life Coalition founded the website, a Canadian political lobbyist organization founded in 1978. From Toronto, the organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Life_Coalition#LifeSiteNews" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;" rel="noreferrer noopener">advocates for socially conservative values. In addition to its initial goals of passing restrictions on abortion and euthanasia, Campaign Life Coalition advocates for what it describes as traditional family values, including opposition to same-sex marriage and age-inappropriate sex education.
Read our profile on https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/canada-media-profile/" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;">Canadian government influence on media.

Funded by / Ownership
The Conservative Campaign Life Coalition owns LifeSiteNews. According to its About page, “LifeSiteNews.com depends primarily on donations from generous readers to maintain its free service. It also has a paid advertising program.”

Analysis / Bias
In review, LifeSiteNews primarily reports on https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/p...ll-banning-abortions-on-babies-with-beating-h" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;" rel="noreferrer noopener">anti-abortion, https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/same-sex 'marriage'" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;" rel="noreferrer noopener">anti-gay marriage, and pro-Evangelical Christian issues. An example of a pro-Christian story is whyhttps://www.lifesitenews.com/news/w...raveling-with-jesus-from-bethlehem-to-calvary" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;" rel="noreferrer noopener"> being Christian means traveling with Jesus from Bethlehem to Calvary. LifeSiteNews also has a favorable opinion of former President Trump, as evidenced by this piece: https://www.lifesitenews.com/archives/search" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Trump brought Christmas back to America. Editorially, every story is right-leaning, including https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinio...has-more-influence-on-american-voters-than-ru" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;" rel="noreferrer noopener">this story that sources non-credible sources such as https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rushlimbaugh-com/" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;">Rush Limbaugh and https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cns-news/" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;color:rgb(221,51,51);font-size:inherit;">CNSNews. In general, story selection favors the Christian right and denigrates the left, while not always being factual in reporting.

Failed Fact Checks
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/target-donating-100000-lgbt/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;font-size:inherit;color:rgb(221,51,51);" rel="noreferrer noopener">Target is donating $100,000 to “promote gay lifestyles to school children.” – MOSTLY FALSE
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/california-sex-ed-parents/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;font-size:inherit;color:rgb(221,51,51);" rel="noreferrer noopener">Parents in California are not allowed to pull their children out of sexual education classes. – MOSTLY FALSE
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/girl-scout-cookies-planned-parenthood/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;font-size:inherit;color:rgb(221,51,51);" rel="noreferrer noopener">The proceeds of Girl Scout Cookies are used to support Planned Parenthood. – FALSE
“https://healthfeedback.org/claimrev...article-compared-percentages-not-raw-numbers/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;font-size:inherit;color:rgb(221,51,51);" rel="noreferrer noopener">Johns Hopkins study mysteriously disappears after it revealed, in spite of COVID, no more deaths in 2020 than in prior years” – INACCURATE
https://factcheck.afp.com/kentucky-monastery-covid-19-cases-not-evidence-vaccine-problems" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:600;font-size:inherit;color:rgb(221,51,51);" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nuns contracted Covid-19 from Moderna vaccine – FALSE
We rate LifeSiteNews far right biased for story selection that always favors evangelical Christianity and Questionable based on the promotion of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and many failed fact checks. (11/25/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 03/04/2021)

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That's a good one from the ever busy fact-checker ... "MOSTLY FALSE". Do they mean a "little bit true, but we don't want to admit it"? Do they also have, in the same box of terms, labels such as "mostly pregnant" or a "tiny bit dead"?

Who put these fact checkers in charge anyway? Call me old Mr Cynical, but I think these fact checkers are a tad biased.
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