Palmer Report is an American liberal fake news website, founded in 2016 by Bill Palmer.
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20 Facts About Palmer Report
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Bill Palmer worked as an elementary school teacher before beginning a series of online publications.
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Palmer Report subsequently founded a politics-focused site called Daily News Bin.
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Palmer Report is a hyperpartisan liberal fake news political blog.
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The Palmer Report typically uses anonymous sources and its articles give the impression that Trump is about to go to prison or be deposed.
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Articles from the Palmer Report were shared almost exclusively by Hillary Clinton supporters during the 2016 presidential election.
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The Palmer Report received five million unique visits per month over the course of 2017.
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In January 2017, the Palmer Report claimed that Trump posed for a fake speechwriting photograph at an auction house receptionist's desk and included an Instagram photo of the receptionist.
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Palmer Report wrote a story claiming that Trump paid $10million to Chaffetz, which was later shared by constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe.
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In October 2017, the Palmer Report published a story claiming that Jared Kushner had "secretly" flown to Saudi Arabia "ahead of his possible arrest", citing a Politico article.
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The Palmer Report is labeled a biased source in the Columbia Journalism Reviews collected index of "fake-news, clickbait, and hate sites".
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Bethania Palma, writing for Snopes, stated that the Palmer Report "generally relies on supposition, often extrapolating conclusions from flimsy sourcing, to make rather explosive claims that have fooled many".
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In 2017, Zack Beauchamp of Vox said that the Palmer Report was "devoted nearly exclusively to spreading bizarre assertions".
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In 2017, George Zornick, writing for The Nation, described the Palmer Report as "churn[ing] out Russia-related fake news by the pixel load".
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In Yochai Benkler's 2018 book, Network Propaganda, found that the Palmer Report were the "clearest examples" of left-wing sites that adopted the "hyperpartisan strategy" of successful right-wing sites in 2017.
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Palmer Report is operated by Bill Palmer, who Business Insider described in 2017 as a "mysterious individual" whose history is largely unknown.
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Palmer Report has used several GoFundMe campaigns to raise funds for his publication.
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Palmer Report has clashed with other liberal social media groups, including Pantsuit Nation.
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Palmer Report describes himself as a political journalist; media sources have variously described him as a journalist, political analyst, left-wing political blogger, and anti-Trump Twitter user.
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