SOURCE: Wikipedia, captured 2020-09-24
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The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine started in 2017. The Post Millennial publishes national and local news and has a large amount of opinion content. The Post Millennial has been criticized for releasing misinformation and articles written by fake personas, for past employment of an editor with ties to white supremacist-platforming and pro-Kremlin media outlets, and for opaque funding and political connections.
The Post Millennial provides both national and regional news. The Post Millennial runs stories on politics and culture. Its opinion section is a significant portion of its content, and conservative figures such as Barbara Kay have written opinions for the outlet. Most news content provided by The Post Millennial is reused from other media outlets with no additional reporting.
The Post Millennial has been described by Buzzfeed News as an advocacy organization for the Conservative Party operating through opaque personal connections and undeclared social media ties.
The website Bellingcat described an article The Post Millennial published during the 2019 Australia fires as "disinformation." The conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson released a false story alleging that the wildfires resulted in large part from arson. The Post Millennial used Watson's story as a basis for their own reporting, alleging that "legal action" had been taken against 183 people during the bushfires. Bellingcat argued that their presentation "did not botch the basic facts" but was misleading.
In July 2020, The Post Millennial reported on the fatal shooting of a Black Lives Matter protestor in Texas. The The Post Millennial's story alleged that the victim had shot first, based in large part on tweets by Ian Miles Cheong and prominent QAnon conspiracist 'In the Matrixx'. Both Twitter users later took down their tweets, and The Post Millennial subsequently issued a correction. However, The Daily Dot said that the The Post Millennial still attempts to blame the deceased man as the instigator, and The Daily Dot describes this propagation of content as an example of how "disinformation circulated by fringe groups to support their preferred narrative -- that Black Lives Matter protesters are violent and lawless -- works its way into the conservative media ecosystem and up to the White House."
In July 2020 The Daily Beast exposed an online network pushing United Arab Emirates propaganda against Qatar, Turkey and Iran, using op-eds placed in news outlets using fictitious authors. The Post Millennial published some of these of these articles. After being contacted by the Beast, it took the articles down without comment.
Andy Ngo has been editor-at-large since 2019. Ngo was previously with the disinformation source Quillette.
Yaakov "Yanky" Pollak, a former provincial Conservative Party candidate, joined the media group in July 2019. Pollak ran a variety of Conservative Party-affiliated Facebook groups, including the Liberty Now and the Elect Conservatives groups. Pollak did not declare his connection to these pages, and until he was contacted by interested media groups, the majority of content on those pages was sourced from The Post Millennial.
The Post Millennial has been questioned for its hiring of editor Cosmin Dzsurdzsa. Dzurdzsa began his career in 2015 at Russia Insider, a pro-Kremlin propaganda outlet. Dzurdzsa worked from December 2017 through 2018 at Free Bird Media, a blog which interviewed white supremacists including Richard Spencer and Kevin Johnston both before and while Dzurdzsa worked there. When asked by the National Observer, representatives of the media outlet made no comment on background checks or considerations of past employment in hiring. Dzsurdzsa no longer works at The Post Millennial.
The Post Millennial was founded in 2017 by Matthew Azrieli and Ali Taghva. The The Post Millennial's Facebook presence expanded rapidly between June 2018 and May 2019, with page interactions growing from 36,000 to 194,000 per month. Meanwhile, a new office was sited in Montreal, and the The Post Millennial planned for another expansion into Toronto in 2020. In May 2019, Jeff Ballingall, a former political campaigner for Ontario Premier Doug Ford, was hired as chief executive. A media study by National Observer found that 8% of Conservative respondents read The Post Millennial.
The Post Millennial is backed by private investors, but their identities have not been made public. Other funding sources remain unclear, with proceeds from advertising or subscriptions undefined.
SOURCE: MediaBiasFactCheck.com, captured 2020-09-24
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COMMENTARY (BuriedTruth). DESPITE the conclusions from MediaBiasFactCheck.com (below), given the highly disconcerting Wikipedia entry and other media (web) reports, it is concluded that "The Post Millennial" is an internet trolling, disinformation site.
"The Post Millennial publishes national and local news and has a large amount of opinion content. The Post Millennial has been criticized for releasing misinformation and articles written by fake personas, for past employment of an editor with ties to white supremacist-platforming and pro-Kremlin media outlets, and for opaque funding and political connections."
Factual Reporting: MOSTLY FACTUAL [see comment, above]
Co-Founded in 2017 by Matthew Azrieli and Ali S. Taghva, The Post Millennial is an alternative news and opinion website based in Montreal, Canada. According to their About page their mission is "To accurately and adequately report Canadian news events as they unfold and progress, and to share this reporting with as many Canadians and citizens of the World as possible."
The Post Millennial is owned and operated by the Après le Millénaire / The Post Millennial Corporation. The website is funded through online advertising and donation links.
In review, The Post Millennial covers Canadian news, Breaking News, Politics and Opinions. When reporting news there is moderate use of loaded words in headlines such as: 5 big Trudeau military failures. For the most part news articles are sourced properly and factually based, though there is a strong right leaning bias in story selection that denigrates the left and in particular PM Justin Trudeau. The opinion/editorial pages provide little balance and primarily support Conservative and Libertarian positions. Further, the Post Millennial sometimes reports unsubstantiated claims that have not been proven such as this: WATCH: Justin Trudeau allegedly went for drinks with woman Liberals claim is a "white nationalist".
A factual search reveals they have failed one fact check.
Rainbow poppies not mandatory for Remembrance Day at Manitoba school -- False
Overall, we rate The Post Millennial Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mostly Factual in reporting [see comment, above!], rather than High, due to publishing unsubstantiated claims and having one failed fact check. (D. Van Zandt 9/19/2018) Updated (11/13/2019)
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