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Started: 2009

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Beforeitsnews.com is a "citizen journalism" website where individuals can provide stories without credentials.[1][2] It has published false information and in general the website seems unreliable.

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Beforeitsnews reported on the 15th December 2012 that both the father of James Holmes and Adam Lanza were to testify in a Libor manipulation scandal without giving any reliable source for that statement.[3] This baseless claim was spread further via a more mainstream website, examiner.com,[4][5][6][7][8] while it appears to have been deleted from there shortly after.[9]

The story from examiner was also picked up and tweeted by one of the main 'Anonymous' accounts (YourAnonNews) on Twitter at the time.[10]


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References

  1. ↑ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/before-its-news/
  2. ↑ https://champstory.com/beforeitsnews/
  3. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20141216125221/http://beforeitsnews.com/economics-and-politics/2012/12/2-mass-shootings-connected-to-libor-2447738.html saved at Archive.is
  4. ↑ https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread908685/pg1#lastPost
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210420072644/https://www.alipac.us/f19/libor-link-fathers-killers-holmes-lanza-were-testify-268949/
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230704202321/https://clinicalcynicism.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/libor-scandal-grows-as-the-fathers-of-two-mass-murderers-were-to-testify/
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230704202320/https://www.news24.com/news24/sandy-hook-massacre-cinema-shooter-and-batman-20121218
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230704202655/https://www.wvwnews.net/news/2012/12/17/libor-scandal-grows-as-the-fathers-of-two-mass-murderers-were-to-testify/
  9. ↑ 404 - https://web.archive.org/web/20121219230358/http://www.examiner.com/article/libor-scandal-grows-as-the-fathers-of-two-mass-murderers-were-to-testify?cid=rss
  10. ↑ http://archive.today/2023.07.04-193604/https://twitter.com/RXFrench/status/280534992851963904


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