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Joseph Farah
Joseph Farah | |
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 Farah in 2013 | |
| Born | Joseph Francis Farah July 6, 1954 Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Alma mater | William Paterson University (BA) |
| Notable awards | The Washington Times Foundation National Service Award (1996) |
| Spouse | Judy Smagula (divorced) Elizabeth Graham |
| Children | 5, including Alyssa |
Joseph Francis Farah (born July 6, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and editor-in-chief of the far-right[1] website WorldNetDaily (WND).[2][3][4] Farah gained prominence for promoting conspiracy theories surrounding the suicide of Vince Foster[5][6] and is a proponent of birtherism, a debunked conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States.[7][8][9]
- ^ Sources describing WorldNetDaily as far-right:
- Balleck, Barry J. (June 1, 2018). "Farah, Joseph Francis". Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist Groups. ABC-CLIO. pp. 110–111. ISBN 9781440852756. Retrieved September 15, 2024 – via Google Books.
Joseph Francis Farah (b. 1955) is editor in chief and CEO of WorldNetDaily (WND, About), a far-right "news" Web site he founded in 1997
- Strømmen, Hannah M. (October 30, 2024). "The War Bible". The Bibles of the Far Right. Oxford University Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-19-778989-6. Retrieved September 15, 2024 – via Google Books.
Farah is the editor-in-chief of the far-right news website World Net Daily, which is cited several times in Breivik's manifesto.
- Andersen, Robin (September 29, 2017). "Weaponizing Social Media: "The Alt-Right," the Election of Donald J. Trump, and the Rise of Ethno-Nationalism in the United States". In Andersen, Robin; de Silva, Purnaka L. (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action. New York: Routledge. pp. 490–491. doi:10.4324/9781315538129-49. ISBN 9781315538129. Retrieved September 15, 2024 – via Taylor & Francis.
It started in January 2016 with an opinion piece Ulukaya wrote for CNN Money, about his efforts to motivate businesses to help end the refugee crisis. Though Ulukaya never mentioned Muslims, the piece attracted the far-right website World Net Daily that published a story titled, "American Yogurt Tycoon Vows to Choke U.S. With Muslims."
- Moffitt, Benjamin (February 2, 2023). "What Was the 'Alt' in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On 'Alt' as a Political Modifier". Political Studies. 72 (3). Sage: 903–923. doi:10.1177/00323217221150871.
Despite Trump's claim that there was no alt-left, within days, editor of the far-right site World Net Daily Joseph Farah published a column entitled 'Let's take a look at the Alt-Left'
- Massing, Michael (February 2009). "Un-American". Columbia Journalism Review.
Far-right Web sites like World Net Daily and Newsmax.com floated all kinds of specious stories about Obama that quickly careened around the blogosphere and onto talk radio.
- Sullivan, Andrew (September 6, 2009). "Obama's in the ER but he'll get his reforms". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382.
One of the most popular far-right websites, WorldNetDaily
- Bruno, Debra; Bruno, Debra (February 21, 2016). "There's the major media. And then there's the 'other' White House press corps". The Washington Post.
Les Kinsolving, a reporter for the far-right World Net Daily, was a familiar White House gadfly from the days of the Nixon administration on.
- Mackey, Robert (August 15, 2020). "White House Plants Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorists Among Reporters in Briefing Room". The Intercept. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
... Powe is a former blogger for WorldNetDaily, the far-right website that helped create the racist 'birther' conspiracy theory to undermine President Barack Obama.
- Perry, Samuel (October 12, 2020). "Evangelical leaders like Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell Sr. have long talked of conspiracies against God's chosen – those ideas are finding resonance today". The Conversation.
WND is a far-right website that entered the mainstream during President Obama's presidency. The website was a hub for the birther conspiracy.
- Balleck, Barry J. (June 1, 2018). "Farah, Joseph Francis". Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist Groups. ABC-CLIO. pp. 110–111. ISBN 9781440852756. Retrieved September 15, 2024 – via Google Books.
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- ^ Massing, Michael (February 2009). "Un-American: Have you listened to the right-wing media lately?". Cjr.org.
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