Ownership and Financing RealRawNews.com does not disclose information about its ownership, and NewsGuard could not determine its owner.
The site includes a link to a PayPal page for donations. “As a shoestring publisher, we rely on listener and reader contributions to survive. Please see our PayPal or Patreon pages if you’re interested in helping Real Raw News stay in the fight,” the site states on the About Us page. RealRawNews.com does not appear to run advertisements.
Content
Stories on the site generally promote conspiracy theories and other debunked claims, including about U.S. politics, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a nonexistent planet called Nibiru that has been the focus of conspiracy theories for more than 20 years, according to the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration. The site, which began publishing in December 2020, had only published 18 stories at the time of NewsGuard’s January 2021 review.
RealRawNews.com states on the About Us page that the site is “dedicated to exposing political and scientific corruption. Our in depth and substantive investigations frequently focus on politics, war, conspiracy, the media, technology, criminal injustice, and more. We provide journalists editorial freedom to expose corruption wherever it is found.
We are apolitical, and we have no dog in the fight, as they say.” Content is organized in sections including News, World, USA, Russia, and COVID-19
Credibility
RealRawNews.com publishes stories promoting
conspiracy theories and false claims on a range of
subjects. For example, a January 2021 article titled “Delta Force
Raids Biden Compound in Ukraine,” claimed that on
Dec. 31, 2020, “Delta Force operators infiltrated a
Biden-controlled stronghold in southeast Ukraine near
the port city of Mariupol, according to an anonymous
White House Source who said President Trump greenlit
the operation following a series of telephone calls to US
military commanders and to Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky.” There is no evidence that a “Biden-controlled
stronghold” exists in Ukraine, that an Army raid
occurred in the country on Dec. 31, 2020, or that
President Trump approved such an operation.
According to the fact-checking website Lead Stories,
the RealRawNews.com story was copied almost
entirely from a 2017 story published on the website
SomeonesBones.com, with just a few details changed.
The original article claimed that the compound
belonged to former U.S. President Barack Obama and
that it was located in Thailand, according to a copy of
the story saved on the Web Archive. In December 2020, the site published an article titled
“Trump Orders Military Tribunal for Brad
Raffensperger.” According to the article, which included
no named sources, “a White House source speaking on
deep background” told the site that “President Donald J.
Trump on Saturday declared his intent to let a military
tribunal decide the fate of ‘traitor’ Brad Raffensperger,
Georgia’s Republican secretary of state.”
There is no evidence that any such military tribunal will
take place, and no other sources have confirmed
RealRawNews.com’s reporting on the matter.
In another December 2020 article, titled “Moderna
Covid-19 Vaccine Causes ‘Monsterism,’” the site
claimed that Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine ”may cause
recipients to experience an extremely rare but
potentially lethal side effect.” The article described the