There was a link to an article in the Covid Vaccine thread, and I'd not seen the source so googled them to get some information.

Columbia Journal Review was one of the first sources of information to pop up, and they provided a list of "fake news" web pages.

CJR Fake News List


CJR states their Goals

Step one in evaluating the credibility of a news story is: Consider the source? To help fight fake news, we've compiled an index of untrustworthy sources.

Goals
Compile the most complete, up-to-date list of active fake-news sites.

Make the list dynamic, auto-adding new sites and removing inactive ones.

Build a blacklist for advertisers to keep their ads off bogus sites (and for researchers who study disinformation).

Anyone surprised that every conservative blog, web page, news source is listed?

Well, there are some obvious misses like CNN, MSNBC, et al. What a load of hogwash

Yeah, that whole list is quite useless as a resource.

Columbia? No need to bother any further.

Worthless. It's not a "fake news" list; it jumbles fake news sites and sites with biases they disagree with, and call it a "fake news" list.

From the link, here's how they 'build' the table:

quote:

We built the table below by merging the major curated fake-news site lists, then purging those sites no longer active. It has each site’s domain name, Alexa rank, and any tags (e.g., fake, clickbait) assigned by, with links to, these fake-news lists:

FactCheck.org’s Misinformation Directory (FC)
Fake News Codex (FN)
OpenSources (OS)
PolitiFact’s Fake News Almanac (PF)
Snopes’ Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors (SN)

No editorial value added - Columbia just scrapes five questionable sources (anyone see any conservative-friendly sites in the list of sources? Or, even, any balanced?) removes duplicates and dead links and that's it. Would take a half-day to program that up, and another 15 minutes to take the site live.

And, well, let's say there are type II errors (omission) and type I errors (commission) as to the contents.

Some on this 'fake news' site, that purports to be worthy of becoming

quote:

a blacklist for advertisers to keep their ads off bogus sites (and for researchers who study disinformation).

American Thinker
Breitbart
Daily Caller
Drudge Report
Newsmax
PJ Media
Project Veritas
Zerohedge.com

Now, I'm not saying I like every one of those, or even visit them, or that those particular sites are other than conservative. But MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. were not on the list for their bias, so just having an editorial slant apparently was not the criteria. (Of course, it's which slant sites had, that qualified them for this 'fake news' list.)

So, yeah, a big nothing sandwich. Are there worthless sites on that list? Yes. Should anyone rely on that list to make any decisions? No.