On 27-JAN-2019, in a bit of debate on flu vaccine, someone brought up the "Bill Gates is antivax" hoax. I quickly replied with a rebuttal citing.
Politifacts tracked down the source to a website called Yournewswire, who have NO citing at all. No name, no proof, nothing. Indeed, it is a fake news clickbait site.
Not that it matters to the claimant, who simply dismissed the rebuttal, so I called him out on it.
So he jumped over to Google and pasted the first link he found that supposedly proves it.
Which leads to this article:
At the bottom, the "source" is cited as Transcend Media Service, where a virtually identical article can be found, but the ORIGINAL source was revealed to be YourNewsWire... the very source debunked in the article I linked.
Indeed, YourNewsWire has a long history of publishing fake news clickbait later debunked by Snopes that now number in the dozens.
Sample headlines published by YourNewsWire includes:
"Katy Perry: 'Human Flesh is The Best Meat; Cannibalism Got A Bad Rap'"
"George Soros Orchestrates Devastating Plan to Kill 100000 Haitians"
and so on.
But none of this bull**** has any effect on the original poster.
Guess we have to consider him an antivax troll.
