NowThis News is a progressive social media-focused news organization founded in 2012.
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10 Facts About NowThis News
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NowThis News was founded by Huffington Post co-founder and former chairman Kenneth Lerer and former Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau in September 2012.
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NowThis News originally focused exclusively on social-media platforms such as Facebook, having announced in 2015 that it would not have a homepage.
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NowThis News suspended Davis and, following an external investigation, removed him from the company.
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NowThis News' videos are primarily emotion-driven in order to generate views and shares.
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An analysis from BuzzFeed News found that NowThis News was the most popular left-leaning site on Facebook between 2015 and 2017, and, along with Occupy Democrats, accounted for half of the 50 top posts on Facebook.
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In 2015, NowThis News published a conspiracy theory which claimed that CNN deleted a poll of Facebook users asserting that most participants thought that Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in the first Democratic presidential debate.
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The posted clip generated over 23 million views on Facebook, and NowThis News included its own logo in the upper corner, not CNN's.
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In January 2020, NowThis News removed a segment of a video they posted where a George Washington University student falsely claimed that Holocaust diarist Anne Frank did not die in a concentration camp .
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