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    1. The site is a low effort Wordpress instance pretending to be a news website (very common in disinformation)
    2. The site is roughly 10 days old (young instances are also common in disinformation websites)
    3. There is no article author, for a “news” website… wow, what journalistic integrity. (Also common in disinfo websites)
    4. The only online footprint that exists for the website is is a few very new social media accounts that use the same name (also, very common in disinfo websites).
    5. It’s not “one thing”, it’s a combination of multiple things that add pile up to make the site look shady.

    Now, I’ll assume you’re working with troglodyte levels of internet literacy and won’t immediately assume your actual goal is trying to spread questionable news sources. But to be honest, your replies make it challenging to give you the benefit of the doubt. Because I’m assuming you made a poor judgement call and a shared shady site in a science community, I’d like to take this time to recommend you swing by the local community college and take an introduction to internet course, maybe swing by a high school and sit in on a media literacy class.

    If you’re going to try and straw man and attempt to insult, please do it with more creativity. If you won’t post credible links, at least have some originality in your comments.

    But please, take those internet and media literacy courses before you try regurgitating more insults you’ve read online. If I’m going to argue with you I would like you to at least have a baseline for what a questionable “news” website looks like. Frankly I don’t have the energy to teach you something you should have learned in grade 9.