Palmer Report#2018–present

Bill Palmer worked as an elementary school teacher before beginning a series of online publications. His earlier endeavors primarily discussed music and technology. In 2013, he launched a publication titled The Stabley Times under a pseudonym. Like his previous websites, the site covered music and technology, but it also added coverage of political and sports-related topics.{{Cite web|last=Engel|first=Pamela|date=May 16, 2017|title='People want it to be true': Inside the growing influence of a mysterious anti-Trump website|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-palmer-report-bill-louise-mensch-2017-5|access-date=2021-07-19|website=Business Insider|language=en-US}} Palmer subsequently founded a politics-focused site called Daily News Bin. A hyperpartisan left-wing website,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IB__DwAAQBAJ&dq=A+Divided+Union:+Structural+Challenges+to+Bipartisanship+in+America+%22occupy%22&pg=PT51|title=A Divided Union: Structural Challenges to Bipartisanship in America|date=October 2020|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-003-09826-3|editor-last=Jolly|editor-first=David|editor-link=David Jolly|language=en|editor-last2=Gamarra|editor-first2=Eduardo|editor-last3=Moreno|editor-first3=Dario|editor-last4=Murphy|editor-first4=Patrick|editor-link4=Patrick Murphy (Florida politician)}}{{Cite journal|last1=Tucker|first1=Joshua A.|last2=Guess|first2=Andrew|last3=Barbera|first3=Pablo|last4=Vaccari|first4=Cristian|last5=Siegel|first5=Alexandra|last6=Sanovich|first6=Sergey|last7=Stukal|first7=Denis|last8=Nyhan|first8=Brendan|date=2018-03-19|title=Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3144139|journal=Loughborough's Research Repository|language=en|location=Rochester, NY|publisher=Elsevier|page=27|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3144139|ssrn=3144139}} Daily News Bin was described by Snopes editor Brooke Binkowski as "a pro-Hillary Clinton 'news site' designed to 'counter misinformation{{' "}}. Daily News Bin promoted fake and sensationalized pro-Clinton narratives, according to The New York Observer.{{Cite web |last=Sainato |first=Michael |date=2017-03-22 |title=Rachel Maddow Asserts Russian Government Incited 'Bot Attack' on Sanders Groups |url=https://observer.com/2017/03/rachel-maddow-russian-government-facebook-bernie-sanders/ |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=The New York Observer |language=en-US}}

A 2017 study by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University identified Daily News Bin as part of a set of "newer highly partisan sites farther left on the spectrum" than "the mainstays of liberal media" such as the Huffington Post, Vox, and Slate.{{cite book |last1=Faris |first1=Robert |url=https://www.issuelab.org/resources/31195/31195.pdf |title=Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election |last2=Roberts |first2=Hal |last3=Etling |first3=Bruce |last4=Bourassa |first4=Nikki |last5=Zuckerman |first5=Ethan |last6=Benkler |first6=Yochai |date=August 2017 |publisher=Berkman Center for Internet & Society |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |pages=36 |oclc=1048396744 |author-link5=Ethan Zuckerman |author-link6=Yochai Benkler}} Also in 2017, Aaron Blake wrote in the Washington Post that misinformation from the Daily News Bin was comparable to that of InfoWars or The Gateway Pundit during the 2016 United States presidential election.{{cite news |last=Blake |first=Aaron |date=August 22, 2017 |title=Trump backers' alarming reliance on hoax and conspiracy theory websites, in 1 chart |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/22/trump-backers-disturbing-reliance-on-hoax-and-conspiracy-theory-websites-in-1-chart/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105084340/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/22/trump-backers-disturbing-reliance-on-hoax-and-conspiracy-theory-websites-in-1-chart/ |archive-date=January 5, 2021 |issn=0190-8286}} Daily News Bin published falsehoods on Bernie Sanders{{cite web |last=LaCapria |first=Kim |date=March 11, 2016 |title=Bernie Sanders Gives Bank of America Speeches? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sanders-bank-speeches/ |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=Snopes |language=en-US}} and voting machines in Wisconsin.{{cite web |last=LaCapria |first=Kim |date=December 3, 2016 |title=FACT CHECK: Wisconsin Recount Observers Find Voting Machines with Broken Seals |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wisconsin-recount-observers-find-voting-machines-broken-seals/ |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=Snopes |language=en-US}} Additionally, Daily News Bin falsely claimed that the Podesta emails were fabricated{{cite web |last=LaCapria |first=Kim |date=October 12, 2016 |title=FALSE: Newsweek Proves That WikiLeaks Is Leaking Phony 'Hillary Clinton Emails' |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/newsweek-proves-that-wikileaks-is-leaking-phony-hillary-clinton-emails/ |access-date=July 5, 2021 |website=Snopes |language=en-US}}{{cite web |last=Greenwald |first=Glenn |author-link=Glenn Greenwald |date=December 9, 2016 |title=A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs |url=https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/a-clinton-fan-manufactured-fake-news-that-msnbc-personalities-spread-to-discredit-wikileaks-docs/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 5, 2021 |website=The Intercept |language=en |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182640/https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/a-clinton-fan-manufactured-fake-news-that-msnbc-personalities-spread-to-discredit-wikileaks-docs/}} and falsely claimed that a video of a public event funded by Goldman Sachs was one of Clinton's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs.{{cite web |last=Fang |first=Lee |author-link=Lee Fang |date=November 26, 2016 |title=Some Fake News Publishers Just Happen to Be Donald Trump's Cronies |url=https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184647/https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/ |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |access-date=July 5, 2021 |website=The Intercept |language=en |quote=}} Daily News Bin was included in Le Monde{{'}}s database of unreliable news sites.{{cite web |last=Davies |first=Jessica |date=January 25, 2017 |title=Le Monde identifies 600 unreliable websites in fake-news crackdown |url=https://digiday.com/media/le-monde-identifies-600-unreliable-websites-fake-news-crackdown/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=Digiday |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184231/https://digiday.com/media/le-monde-identifies-600-unreliable-websites-fake-news-crackdown/}}{{cite web |last=Elgan |first=Mike |author-link=Mike Elgan |date=January 28, 2017 |title=Why fake news is a tech problem |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/3162020/why-fake-news-is-a-tech-problem.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=Computerworld |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185130/https://www.computerworld.com/article/3162020/why-fake-news-is-a-tech-problem.html}}

The Palmer Report is a hyperpartisan liberal fake news political blog. It is known for making unsubstantiated or false claims and publishing conspiracy theories, especially on matters relating to Donald Trump and Russia.{{cite book |last=Wolfe |first=Alan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089910327 |title=The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity |date=August 22, 2019 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-67911-2 |location=Chicago, IL |pages=101 |oclc=1089910327 |author-link=Alan Wolfe |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703031114/https://www.worldcat.org/title/politics-of-petulance-america-in-an-age-of-immaturity/oclc/1089910327 |archive-date=July 3, 2021 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Beauchamp |first=Zack |date=May 19, 2017 |title=Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia |url=https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/19/15561842/trump-russia-louise-mensch |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512105300/https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/19/15561842/trump-russia-louise-mensch |archive-date=May 12, 2020 |website=Vox |access-date=May 15, 2020}}{{cite magazine |last=Dickey |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Dickey |date=June 8, 2017 |title=The New Paranoia |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/142977/new-paranoia-trump-election-turns-democrats-conspiracy-theorists |url-status=live |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608053036/https://newrepublic.com/article/142977/new-paranoia-trump-election-turns-democrats-conspiracy-theorists |archive-date=June 8, 2021}}{{cite web |last=Covucci |first=David |date=2019-03-25 |title=Trump-Russia conspiracy theorists think they've found secrets in the Mueller report |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/russiagate-mueller/ |url-status=live |access-date=2021-07-07 |website=The Daily Dot |language=en-US |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183408/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/russiagate-mueller/}} The Palmer Report typically uses anonymous Secret Service sources and its articles give the impression that Trump is about to go to prison or be deposed.{{Cite news |last=Schröder |first=Thorsten |author-link=:de:Thorsten Schröder |date=May 24, 2017 |title=Trumps Skandale? Ansichtssache |language=German |work=Die Zeit |url=https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2017-05/us-medien-donald-trump-skandale-enthuellung-ansichtssache-verschwoerung/seite-2 |issn=0044-2070}} It is regarded as a political propaganda outlet{{Cite journal |last=Carter |first=Edward L. |date=2022-01-01 |title="Truth Is the Only Ground" How Journalism Contributes to Good Government |url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol61/iss1/19 |journal=BYU Studies Quarterly |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=226 |issn=2167-8480}}{{Cite book |last=Smits |first=Rik |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lkBzEAAAQBAJ |title=The Art of Verbal Warfare |date=2022-08-08 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1-78914-593-9 |language=en |oclc=1327835506 |author-link=Rik Smits (linguist)}} or left-wing disinformation.{{Cite web |last=LaCapria |first=Kim |date=November 8, 2019 |title=Who Runs 'Journalist Excellence Worldwide'? |url=https://www.truthorfiction.com/who-runs-journalist-excellence-worldwide/ |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=TruthOrFiction |language=en-us}}{{Cite web|last=Kumleben|first=Mark|date=Jun 11, 2018|title=Moderate Republicans: Computational Propaganda in the United States|url=https://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/ourwork/IFTF_ModerateRepublicans_comp.prop_W_05.07.19.pdf|website=Institute for the Future|access-date=August 23, 2021|archive-date=October 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018155448/https://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/ourwork/IFTF_ModerateRepublicans_comp.prop_W_05.07.19.pdf|url-status=dead}} Articles from the Palmer Report were shared almost exclusively by Hillary Clinton supporters during the 2016 presidential election.{{cite web |last1=Larson |first1=Jordan |last2=Read |first2=Max |date=December 22, 2017 |title='The Russia Story,' as It Happened on Social Media |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/the-complete-russia-story-as-encountered-by-social-media.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 2, 2021 |website=Intelligencer |language=en-us |archive-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109025658/http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/the-complete-russia-story-as-encountered-by-social-media.html}} The Palmer Report received five million unique visits per month over the course of 2017.Benkler, et. al., "Network Propaganda," p.287.

Some of the Palmer Report's most widely shared stories include the conspiracy theory that then-House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell funneled "Russian money" to Trump and that Robert Mueller planned on arresting Donald Trump Jr. for "treason."

After Trump was announced as the winner of the election, the Palmer Report published two articles claiming that the election was "rigged"{{cite web |last=Gelman |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Gelman |date=November 22, 2016 |title=Stop Saying the Election Was Rigged. Trump's Win Was Always an Option. |url=https://slate.com/technology/2016/11/reports-claiming-the-election-was-rigged-are-wrong.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602064843/https://slate.com/technology/2016/11/reports-claiming-the-election-was-rigged-are-wrong.html |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |website=Slate Magazine |language=en}} and falsely claimed 5,000 Trump votes in Wisconsin were disqualified.{{cite web |date=December 19, 2016 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Wisconsin votes miscounted, not disqualified |url=https://apnews.com/article/8e46e62a4ada4752bc5e524c44279966 |url-status=live |access-date=July 6, 2021 |website=Associated Press |language=en |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190342/https://apnews.com/article/8e46e62a4ada4752bc5e524c44279966}} During a recount in Waukesha County, a story from the Palmer Report spread online, alleging that election officials were double-counting votes for Trump. The source of the story was an unverified Facebook post. Election officials dismissed the story, and the Wisconsin Elections Commission found no evidence for the allegations. The story was shared close to 40,000 times on social media.{{cite AV media|url=https://archive.org/details/WDJT_20161206_220000_CBS_58_News_at_4pm/start/120/end/180|title=Fake News Confusion|date=December 6, 2016|last=Kittilstad|first=Jacob|type=Television production|language=en|publisher=CBS 58 News|access-date=July 19, 2021|via=Internet Archive}} Statistician Andrew Gelman compared the Palmer Report{{'}}s claims of election rigging to claims made in the National Enquirer, and wrote that "the basis for these accusations is more perceived unfairness than actual statistics".

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. Snopes found that the photo in question had been taken at Mar-a-Lago and posted in December 2015 and that the receptionist was not an auction house employee.{{cite web |last=LaCapria |first=Kim |date=January 19, 2017 |title=FACT CHECK: Did Donald Trump Steal a Receptionists Desk and Notepad to Stage Speechwriting Picture? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-staged-speechwriting-picture/ |access-date=July 2, 2021 |website=Snopes |language=en-US}}

During the 2017 Syria missile strikes ordered by Trump, the Palmer Report suggested, without evidence, that Trump spared the runways of the Shayrat airfield due to Russian collusion.{{cite news |last=Qiu |first=Linda |date=April 11, 2017 |title=Syria Conspiracy Theories Flourish, at Both Ends of the Spectrum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/us/politics/factcheck-syria-strike-conspiracy-theories.html |access-date=July 2, 2021 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309014533/http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/us/politics/factcheck-syria-strike-conspiracy-theories.html |url-status=live}} MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell echoed a Palmer Report conspiracy theory that Syria's chemical weapon attack was orchestrated by the Russian government in order to allow Trump to appear distant from Putin.{{cite news |last=Milbank |first=Dana |author-link=Dana Milbank |date=April 10, 2017 |title=Don't fight Trump with conspiracy theories. What's there is damning enough. |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-let-baseless-conspiracy-theories-about-trump-distract-from-the-truth/2017/04/10/3c2175d4-1e1a-11e7-a0a7-8b2a45e3dc84_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004121840/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-let-baseless-conspiracy-theories-about-trump-distract-from-the-truth/2017/04/10/3c2175d4-1e1a-11e7-a0a7-8b2a45e3dc84_story.html |archive-date=October 4, 2018}} The story contained no evidence.{{Cite news |last=Selk |first=Avi |date=April 8, 2017 |title=MSNBC host's conspiracy theory: What if Putin planned the Syrian chemical attack to help Trump? |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/08/msnbc-hosts-conspiracy-theory-what-if-putin-planned-the-syrian-chemical-attack-to-help-trump/ |access-date=2022-05-28 |issn=0190-8286}}

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In April 2017, the Palmer Report falsely claimed that the FBI had intelligence that Russia was blackmailing Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz.{{cite journal |last1=Clayton |first1=Katherine |last2=Blair |first2=Spencer |last3=Busam |first3=Jonathan A. |last4=Forstner |first4=Samuel |last5=Glance |first5=John |last6=Green |first6=Guy |last7=Kawata |first7=Anna |last8=Kovvuri |first8=Akhila |last9=Martin |first9=Jonathan |last10=Morgan |first10=Evan |last11=Sandhu |first11=Morgan |date=2020-12-01 |title=Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-019-09533-0 |journal=Political Behavior |language=en |publisher=Springer |volume=42 |issue=4 |page=1081 |doi=10.1007/s11109-019-09533-0 |s2cid=151227829 |issn=1573-6687|url-access=subscription }} The evidence for the claim came from a tweet from Louise Mensch, who, in turn, cited unnamed sources. Snopes found no evidence for this claim.{{cite web |last=Palma |first=Bethania |date=April 19, 2017 |title=FACT CHECK: Does Russia Have 'Kompromat' on Jason Chaffetz? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russia-kompromat-jason-chaffetz/ |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=Snopes |language=en-US}}{{cite news |last=Hunt |first=Albert |author-link=Al Hunt |date=April 7, 2017 |title=Liberals Shouldn't Tolerate the Loony Left |newspaper=Bloomberg News |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-07-07/liberals-shouldn-t-tolerate-the-loony-left |access-date=July 4, 2021}} Ned Price, former special assistant to Obama, promoted the false claim on Twitter.

The Palmer Report also wrote a story claiming that Trump paid $10{{nbsp}}million to Chaffetz, which was later shared by constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe.{{cite web |last=Greenwald |first=Glenn |author-link=Glenn Greenwald |date=February 12, 2018 |title=Harvard's Laurence Tribe Has Become a Deranged Russia Conspiracist: Today Was His Most Humiliating Debacle |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/02/12/harvards-laurence-tribe-has-become-a-deranged-russia-conspiracist-today-was-his-most-humiliating-debacle/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=The Intercept |language=en |archive-date=May 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200528234735/https://theintercept.com/2018/02/12/harvards-laurence-tribe-has-become-a-deranged-russia-conspiracist-today-was-his-most-humiliating-debacle/}}{{cite journal |last=Hasen |first=Richard |author-link=Richard L. Hasen |date=2018-03-15 |title=The 2016 Voting Wars: From Bad to Worse |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/wmbrts26&id=661&collection=journals&index= |journal=William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal |volume=26 |issue=3 |page=648 |issn=1065-8254 |via=HeinOnline}} The article pointed to a "report" from a tweet sent by a user with 257 followers. In response to Tribe sharing the Palmer Report{{'}}s article, political scientist Brendan Nyhan wrote: "Is this a joke? This is tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff".{{cite web |last=Kolowich |first=Steve |date=May 15, 2017 |title=What Is Seth Abramson Trying to Tell Us? |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-is-seth-abramson-trying-to-tell-us/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210704072646/https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-is-seth-abramson-trying-to-tell-us/ |archive-date=July 4, 2021 |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education}} A few years later, Tribe acknowledged he made "a mistake" and did not realize the Palmer Report "was as unreliable as it is."{{Cite magazine |last=Chotiner |first=Isaac |date=2022-05-17 |title=The Supreme Court's History of Protecting the Powerful |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-supreme-courts-history-of-protecting-the-powerful |access-date=2022-05-18 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}

In May 2017, Senator Ed Markey was forced to backtrack a false claim that a grand jury had been impaneled in New York in relation to the Special Counsel investigation; the source for the claim was the Palmer Report and Mensch's blog, according to one of his aides.{{cite web |last=Palma |first=Bethania |title=FACT CHECK: Did Jared Kushner Go to Saudi Arabia Because it Doesn't Have an Extradition Treaty With the US? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jared-kushner-go-saudi-arabia-doesnt-extradition-treaty-us/ |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=Snopes |date=October 31, 2017 |language=en-US}}{{cite news |last=Bump |first=Phillip |date=May 24, 2017 |title=Another elected official cites 'the Internet' in defense of his bad arguments |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/24/another-elected-official-cites-the-internet-in-defense-of-his-bad-arguments/ |access-date=July 1, 2021 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=March 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319001614/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/24/another-elected-official-cites-the-internet-in-defense-of-his-bad-arguments/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Swaine |first=Jon |date=May 16, 2017 |title=New fake news dilemma: sites publish real scoops amid mess of false reports |url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/16/fake-news-sites-reports-facts-louise-mensch |url-status=live |access-date=July 6, 2021 |website=The Guardian |language=en |archive-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711124122/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/16/fake-news-sites-reports-facts-louise-mensch}} In the same month, the Palmer Report reported that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had ordered Neil Gorsuch to recuse himself from all Trump-related Russia hearings, with his only source being a "single tweet from an anonymous Twitter account under the name 'Puesto Loco{{' "}}.

During the 2017 Niger ambush, where four US soldiers were killed by militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, the Palmer Report speculated that US troops in Niger were involved in a "secret Russian-controlled military operation" approved by Trump.{{cite web |last=Emery |first=David |date=October 21, 2017 |title=FACT CHECK: Was an Attack on United States Soldiers in Niger a Debacle 'Worse than Benghazi'? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-niger-attack-worse-than-benghazi/ |access-date=July 3, 2021 |website=Snopes |language=en-US |quote=...the incident appeared on the left-leaning conspiracist web site Palmer Report...}} The Palmer Report also pushed a conspiracy theory that the Trump administration's travel ban against Chad was connected to the Niger ambush.{{cite web |last=Seay |first=Laura |date=October 20, 2017 |title=Liberals, Do Not Try to Turn Niger into Trump's Benghazi |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/do-not-try-to-turn-niger-into-trumps-benghazi.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 3, 2021 |website=Slate Magazine |language=en |archive-date=May 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526045020/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/do-not-try-to-turn-niger-into-trumps-benghazi.html}}

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. The cited Politico article debunks the Palmer Report{{'}}s own story since it stated that Kushner had actually departed on a diplomatic trip two days prior to the announcement that Robert Mueller's team would begin issuing indictments in relation to the Special Counsel investigation and that Kushner returned to Washington, D.C. to celebrate his wife Ivanka Trump's birthday before anyone had been taken into custody. Snopes rated the Palmer Report{{'}}s story as false. A few days after the story was published, Palmer acknowledged that Kushner returned home and was not arrested.{{cite web |last=Barrett |first=Paul |date=March 2019 |title=Tackling Domestic Disinformation: What the Social Media Companies Need to Do |url=https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/files/documents/NYU20Domestic20Disinformation_Digital20Version.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights |page=9 |archive-date=March 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327163626/https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/files/documents/NYU20Domestic20Disinformation_Digital20Version.pdf}}

During the 2018 Kavanaugh hearings, the Palmer Report and others falsely claimed that attorney Zina Bash, who is of Mexican and Jewish descent, flashed a "white-power" symbol.{{Cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Eli |date=September 5, 2018 |title=That was no white-power hand signal at the Kavanaugh hearing, Zina Bash's husband says |url=https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2018/09/05/that-was-no-white-power-hand-signal-at-kavanaugh-hearing-zina-bashs-husband-says/10845036007/ |access-date=2022-04-21 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US}} Journalist David Harsanyi said the Palmer Report and others were "conspiracy-mongering in much the same way Alex Jones is conspiracy-mongering".{{Cite web |last=Harsanyi |first=David |author-link=David Harsanyi |date=September 12, 2018 |title=Harsanyi: Kavanaugh hearings showcase the paranoia of the resistance |url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2018/09/12/kavanaugh-hearings-showcase-paranoia-resistance/1268541002/ |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=The Detroit News |language=en-US}}

Following a speech Trump delivered on January 8, 2020 concerning an Iranian missile strike at American bases and other hostilities with Iran, the Palmer Report incorrectly claimed that a general standing behind Trump gave a "horrified look" when Trump mentioned hypersonic missiles. The Palmer Report also incorrectly claimed that by acknowledging the missiles, Trump leaked "classified information". A video of the speech shows no general giving a horrified look and it is a well known fact that America possess hypersonic missile technology.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XL40EAAAQBAJ |title=Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives In Action |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-5381-3815-1 |editor-last=Kuypers |editor-first=Jim A. |editor-link=Jim A. Kuypers |edition=3rd |location=Lanham, Maryland |pages=34 |chapter=What Is Rhetorical Criticism? |lccn=2021009831 |oclc=1240826243}}

In August 2020, the Palmer Report "[led] the charge" against MSNBC host Chris Hayes after he reported on the Tara Reade sexual assault accusations against Biden. The Palmer Report commented, "I won't stop going after Hayes until he retracts his false story or he's off the air." According to The Daily Dot, "All Hayes did was address the story. But Biden supporters{{nbsp}}... are throwing their arms up at a member of the media for covering it, demanding he be fired, calling it fake news, and searching for conspiracies, refusing to interrogate that a candidate who has a history of making women uncomfortable could do something like that."{{Cite web |last=Covucci |first=David |date=2020-04-30 |title=Why Fire Chris Hayes is trending |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/fire-chris-hayes-joe-biden/ |access-date=2022-05-29 |website=The Daily Dot |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Higgins |first=Eoin |date=April 30, 2020 |title=#FireChrisHayes Trends as MSNBC Anchor Attacked for Covering Biden Accuser Story |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/30/firechrishayes-trends-msnbc-anchor-attacked-covering-biden-accuser-story |access-date=2022-05-29 |website=Common Dreams |language=en}}

In December 2020, the Palmer Report falsely reported that Colin Powell had urged Michael Flynn to be put on "military trial for sedition".{{cite web |last=Perkins |first=Olivera |date=December 30, 2020 |title=Fact Check: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Did NOT Urge That Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn Be Put On 'Military Trial For Sedition' |url=https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/12/fact-check-former-secretary-of-state-and-retired-gen-colin-powell-did-not-urge-for-retired-gen-michael-flynn-to-be-put-on-military-trial-for-sedition.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183356/https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/12/fact-check-former-secretary-of-state-and-retired-gen-colin-powell-did-not-urge-for-retired-gen-michael-flynn-to-be-put-on-military-trial-for-sedition.html |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |access-date=July 5, 2021 |website=Lead Stories |language=en-US}}

In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations, the Palmer Report was ranked the fourth least trusted news organization by Americans{{snd}}underneath Breitbart News and the Daily Kos{{snd}}with Occupy Democrats, InfoWars, and The Daily Caller being lower-ranked.{{cite web |last=Benton |first=Joshua |author-link=Joshua Benton |date=October 5, 2018 |title=Here's how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!) |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/heres-how-much-americans-trust-38-major-news-organizations-hint-not-all-that-much/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208001945/https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/heres-how-much-americans-trust-38-major-news-organizations-hint-not-all-that-much/ |archive-date=December 8, 2020 |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=Nieman Lab}} In an October 2020 study by the German Marshall Fund examining misinformation on social media during the 2016 election, the Palmer Report was one of the websites categorized as "false content producers" or "manipulators".{{cite news |last=Alba |first=Davey |author-link=Davey Alba |date=October 12, 2020 |title=On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/technology/on-facebook-misinformation-is-more-popular-now-than-in-2016.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624071453/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/technology/on-facebook-misinformation-is-more-popular-now-than-in-2016.html |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}} The Palmer Report is labeled a biased source in the Columbia Journalism Review{{'}}s collected index of "fake-news, clickbait, and hate sites".{{cite web |title=CJR index of fake-news, clickbait, and hate sites |url=https://www.cjr.org/fake-beta |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118162302/https://www.cjr.org/fake-beta#corrections |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=Columbia Journalism Review}}

Various journalists have publicly discouraged individuals from sharing Palmer Report articles. 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". Snopes' managing editor, Brooke Binkowski, said that the stories were "nominally true" but sensationalized innocuous information.{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/viva-la-resistance-content/515532/ |title=The Rise of Progressive 'Fake News' |work=The Atlantic |last=Meyer |first=Robinson |date=February 3, 2017 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701074908/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/viva-la-resistance-content/515532/ |url-status=live}} In 2017, Zack Beauchamp of Vox said that the Palmer Report was "devoted nearly exclusively to spreading bizarre assertions". Author Colin Dickey, writing in The New Republic, said that the Palmer Report "routinely blasts out stories that sound serious but are actually based on a single, unverified source". The Atlantic{{'}}s McKay Coppins called the Palmer Report "the publication of record for anti-Trump conspiracy nuts who don't care about the credibility of the record".{{cite news |last=Coppins |first=McKay |author-link=McKay Coppins |date=July 2, 2017 |title=How the Left Lost Its Mind |work=The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223012416/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/ |archive-date=December 23, 2017 |access-date=July 3, 2017}} Journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept wrote that the Palmer Report is "a classic fake news site created by{{nbsp}}... a crazed fanatical follower of Hillary Clinton who got caught purposely disseminating fake news during the election".{{cite web |last=Greenwald |first=Glenn |author-link=Glenn Greenwald |date=March 7, 2017 |title=Leading Putin Critic Warns of Xenophobic Conspiracy Theories Drowning U.S. Discourse and Helping Trump |url=https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/leading-putin-critic-warns-of-xenophobic-conspiracy-theories-drowning-u-s-discourse-and-helping-trump/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416022521/https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/leading-putin-critic-warns-of-xenophobic-conspiracy-theories-drowning-u-s-discourse-and-helping-trump/ |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=The Intercept |language=en}} In 2017, George Zornick, writing for The Nation, described the Palmer Report as "churn[ing] out Russia-related fake news by the pixel load".{{cite news |last=Zornick |first=George |date=June 16, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders Is a Russian Agent, and Other Things I Learned This Week |language=en-US |work=The Nation |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/bernie-sanders-is-a-russian-agent-and-other-things-i-learned-this-week/ |access-date=July 1, 2021 |issn=0027-8378 |archive-date=February 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202015244/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/bernie-sanders-is-a-russian-agent-and-other-things-i-learned-this-week/ |url-status=live}} The Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank identified the Palmer Report as "part of a larger phenomenon that has already taken root online, where in some quarters full-blown cases of Trump derangement syndrome have already broken out." {{Interlanguage link|David G. McAfee|sv}}'s The Curious Person's Guide to Fighting Fake News described the Palmer Report as a website that "provides skewed content featuring sensational headlines and stories with unverified conspiracy theories".{{cite book |last=McAfee |first=David G. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1192499268 |title=The Curious Person's Guide to Fighting Fake News |date=2020 |publisher=Pitchstone Publishing |isbn=978-1-63431-207-3 |location=Durham |oclc=1192499268 |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703031113/https://www.worldcat.org/title/curious-persons-guide-to-fighting-fake-news/oclc/1192499268 |archive-date=July 3, 2021 |url-status=live}} In February 2017, The Atlantic ran an article titled "The Rise of Progressive Fake News" and used the Palmer Report as one of its leading examples.

Palmer Report{{'}}s prediction that Susan Collins was "toast" in the 2020 United States Senate election in Maine{{snd}}an election she won by nine points{{snd}}was named one of "The Worst Predictions of 2020" by Politico.{{cite news |last1=Stanton |first1=Zack |date=December 29, 2020 |title=The Worst Predictions of 2020 |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/29/worst-predictions-about-2020-451444 |url-status=live |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229182244/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/29/worst-predictions-about-2020-451444 |archive-date=December 29, 2020}}

In 2023, Newsweek issued a correction to a news story, writing in an editor's note that they had "incorrectly referred to Palmer Report as a fake news website".{{cite news |last1=Fung |first1=Katherine |title=Donald Trump sparks suspicion he's about to be indicted again |url=https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-sparks-suspicion-hes-about-indicted-again-1810257 |access-date=4 July 2023 |work=Newsweek |date=30 June 2023 |language=en}}

Political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote in 2019 that Trump's connection with Russia "has created a wide-open field for leftist conspiracy theorists to make one wild claim after another; nearly all of them{{nbsp}}... can be conveniently found on a website called the Palmer Report." In a 2019 report from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, the Palmer Report was described as a "left-leaning dubious-content site" where many of the articles "range from the unsubstantiated{{nbsp}}... to the sophomoric." In Yochai Benkler's 2018 book, Network Propaganda, found that the Palmer Report (along with Occupy Democrats) were the "clearest examples" of left-wing sites that adopted the "hyperpartisan strategy" of successful right-wing sites in 2017.Benkler, et. al., "Network Propaganda," p. 71 David Greenberg, a professor of history and journalism, identified the Palmer Report as a "junk-news" site and a source not to be trusted.{{Cite web|last=Major|first=David W.|date=May 29, 2020|title=The Future of the Fourth Estate|url=https://www.rutgers.edu/magazine/spring-2020/future-fourth-estate|access-date=2021-08-26|website=Rutgers Magazine|publisher=Rutgers University|language=en}} Brendan Nyhan believes with sites like the Palmer Report, the left risks "poisoning" the Democratic Party. Sociologist Ellis Jones gave the Palmer Report an "F" grade on his "A" through "F" scale.{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Ellis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p5vKDwAAQBAJ |title=The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference |date=2022-03-15 |publisher=New Society Publishers |isbn=978-1-55092-739-9 |edition=7th |page=36 |language=en |author-link=Ellis Jones (sociologist)}}

The Palmer Report is operated by Bill Palmer, whom Business Insider described in 2017 as a "mysterious individual" whose history is largely unknown. The Palmer Report, like many of Palmer's previous publications, has a long list of writers on its website, in 2017 it was reported that many of them had only written a single article for the site, and most of the content appeared to have been written by Palmer himself. In 2023, while Palmer still writes many articles himself, there are five other regular writers. Palmer has used several GoFundMe campaigns to raise funds for his publication and the Palmer Report now features a prominent call for donations on each page. Palmer has clashed with other liberal social media groups, including Pantsuit Nation. Palmer describes himself as a political journalist;{{Cite journal|last=Heldebrandt|first=Beth|date=September 22, 2019|title=How a Popular Media Bias Chart Determines What News can be Trusted.|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=21587345&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA610843967&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|url-status=live|journal=Gateway Journalism Review|language=English|volume=48|issue=355|pages=20–22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703031119/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=21587345&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA610843967&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs&userGroupName=anon%7Ebbe334f7|archive-date=July 3, 2021|access-date=July 2, 2021|quote=Bill Palmer, a self-described political journalist ...|via=Gale OneFile}} media sources have variously described him as a journalist, political analyst,{{Cite web|last=Rossi|first=Rosemary|date=August 9, 2020|title=LA Times Chewed Out for 'Blatantly Sexist' Headline Comparing Biden Veep Pick to 'The Bachelor'|url=https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-sexist-headline-comparing-biden-campaign-to-the-bachelor/|access-date=July 19, 2021|website=TheWrap|language=en-US}} left-wing political blogger,{{Cite web|last=Kennedy|first=John|date=June 24, 2020|title=Rod Stewart Fans Livid About Strategist's Trump Analogy|url=https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/rod-stewart-fans-livid-about-strategist-s-trump-analogy-1.12788432|access-date=2021-07-20|website=iHeartRadio|language=en-CA}} and anti-Trump Twitter user.{{Cite web|last=Puente|first=Maria|date=May 30, 2018|title=Melania Trump is not missing, but Twitter thinks otherwise|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/05/30/melania-trump-back-twitter-and-shes-fine-she-says/657237002/|access-date=July 19, 2021|website=USA Today|language=en-US}}

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Sources describing the Palmer Report as a liberal website include:

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• {{cite book |last=McAfee |first=David G. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1192499268 |title=The Curious Person's Guide to Fighting Fake News |date=2020 |publisher=Pitchstone Publishing |isbn=978-1-63431-207-3 |location=Durham |oclc=1192499268 |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703031113/https://www.worldcat.org/title/curious-persons-guide-to-fighting-fake-news/oclc/1192499268 |url-status=live}}
• {{cite web |last=Peyser |first=Eve |date=May 2, 2018 |title=Just Stop Listening to Celebs' Awful Political Opinions |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/kanye-doesnt-know-anything-stop-listening-to-him/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 2, 2021 |website=Vice |language=en |archive-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703031112/https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5awjb/kanye-doesnt-know-anything-stop-listening-to-him}}

Sources describing the Palmer Report as a fake news website include:

• {{Cite journal |last1=Lawson |first1=M. Asher |last2=Anand |first2=Shikhar |last3=Kakkar |first3=Hemant |date=March 2023 |title=Tribalism and Tribulations: The Social Costs of Not Sharing Fake News. |url=https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001374 |journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: General |language=en |volume=152 |issue=3 |pages=8–9 |doi=10.1037/xge0001374 |pmid=36892902 |issn=1939-2222|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite conference |last1=Park |first1=Jinkyung |last2=Ellezhuthil |first2=Rahul Dev |last3=Isaac |first3=Joseph |last4=Mergerson |first4=Christoph |last5=Feldman |first5=Lauren |last6=Singh |first6=Vivek |date=March 4, 2023 |title=Misinformation Detection Algorithms and Fairness across Political Ideologies: The Impact of Article Level Labeling |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3578503.3583617 |conference=Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 |location=|series=WebSci '23 |language=en |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=112 |doi=10.1145/3578503.3583617 |isbn=979-8-4007-0089-7|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Osmundsen|first1=Mathias|last2=Bor|first2=Alexander|last3=Vahlstrup|first3=Peter Bjerregaard|last4=Bechmann|first4=Anja|last5=Petersen|first5=Michael Bang|date=May 7, 2021|title=Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter|url=https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=4491271&version=1.0|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=115|issue=3|pages=999–1015|doi=10.1017/S0003055421000290|s2cid=235527523|issn=0003-0554}}
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• {{Cite journal|last1=Ognyanova|first1=Katherine|last2=Lazer|first2=David|last3=Robertson|first3=Ronald E.|last4=Wilson|first4=Christo|date=2020-06-02|title=Misinformation in action: Fake news exposure is linked to lower trust in media, higher trust in government when your side is in power|url=https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Misinformation-in-action-Ognyanova-et-al-2020.pdf|journal=Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review|language=en-US|publisher=Shorenstein Center|volume=1|issue=4|doi=10.37016/mr-2020-024|doi-access=free |author-link2=David Lazer}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Allcott|first1=Hunt|last2=Gentzkow|first2=Matthew|last3=Yu|first3=Chuan|date=2019-04-01|title=Trends in the diffusion of misinformation on social media|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/2053168019848554/suppl_file/appendix.pdf|journal=Research & Politics|language=en|publisher=SAGE Publishing|volume=6|issue=2|pages= |doi=10.1177/2053168019848554|issn=2053-1680|arxiv=1809.05901|s2cid=52291737}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Grinberg|first1=Nir|last2=Joseph|first2=Kenneth|last3=Friedland|first3=Lisa|last4=Swire-Thompson|first4=Briony|last5=Lazer|first5=David|date=2019-01-25|title=Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election|journal=Science|language=en|publisher=AAAS|volume=363|issue=6425|pages=374–378|doi=10.1126/science.aau2706|pmid=30679368|bibcode=2019Sci...363..374G|issn=0036-8075|doi-access=free|author-link5=David Lazer}}
• {{cite news |last=Zornick |first=George |date=June 16, 2017 |title=Bernie Sanders Is a Russian Agent, and Other Things I Learned This Week |language=en-US |work=The Nation |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/bernie-sanders-is-a-russian-agent-and-other-things-i-learned-this-week/ |access-date=July 1, 2021 |issn=0027-8378 |archive-date=February 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202015244/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/bernie-sanders-is-a-russian-agent-and-other-things-i-learned-this-week/ |url-status=live}}
• {{cite web |last=Lynch |first=Connor |date=2017-06-24 |title=Can we lose the liberal jingoism? Loose talk about "treason" is only harming the resistance |url=https://www.salon.com/2017/06/24/can-we-lose-the-liberal-jingoism-loose-talk-about-treason-is-only-harming-the-resistance/ |url-status=live |access-date=2021-07-16 |website=Salon |language=en |archive-date=March 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210315211845/https://www.salon.com/2017/06/24/can-we-lose-the-liberal-jingoism-loose-talk-about-treason-is-only-harming-the-resistance/}}
• {{cite web |last=Greenwald |first=Glenn |author-link=Glenn Greenwald |date=March 7, 2017 |title=Leading Putin Critic Warns of Xenophobic Conspiracy Theories Drowning U.S. Discourse and Helping Trump |url=https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/leading-putin-critic-warns-of-xenophobic-conspiracy-theories-drowning-u-s-discourse-and-helping-trump/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416022521/https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/leading-putin-critic-warns-of-xenophobic-conspiracy-theories-drowning-u-s-discourse-and-helping-trump/ |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=The Intercept |language=en}}

Sources describing the Palmer Report as hyperpartisan include:

• {{cite book |last1=Benkler |first1=Yochai |url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624 |title=Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics |last2=Faris |first2=Robert |last3=Roberts |first3=Hal |author-link1=Yochai Benkler |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-19-092366-2 |language=en-US |chapter=The Architecture of Our Discontent |doi=10.1093/oso/9780190923624.003.0002 |quote=This did not prevent a hyperpartisan site like the Palmer Report ... |chapter-url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624-chapter-2 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126010551/https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624 |url-status=live}}
• {{cite book |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/disinformation-age/1F4751119C7C4693E514C249E0F0F997 |title=The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communication in the United States |date=October 15, 2020 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-84305-8 |editor-last=Bennett |editor-first=W. Lance |editor-link=W. Lance Bennett |series=SSRC Anxieties of Democracy |location=Cambridge |pages=45–46 |doi=10.1017/9781108914628 |s2cid=240670724 |quote=While we observed some hyperpartisan sites on the left, such as Occupy Democrats during the election or the Palmer Report in 2017 ... |access-date=July 1, 2021 |editor-last2=Livingston |editor-first2=Steven |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126101758/https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/disinformation-age/1F4751119C7C4693E514C249E0F0F997 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |url-status=live}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Pennycook |first1=Gordon |last2=Rand |first2=David G. |author-link1=Gordon Pennycook |author-link2=David G. Rand |date=February 12, 2019 |title=Supporting information for 'Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality' |url=https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2019/01/14/1806781116.DCSupplemental/pnas.1806781116.sapp.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=116 |issue=7 |pages=2521–2526 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1806781116 |pmc=6377495 |pmid=30692252 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703031111/https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2019/01/14/1806781116.DCSupplemental/pnas.1806781116.sapp.pdf |archive-date=July 3, 2021 |access-date=July 1, 2021|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Lau |first1=Vienne W. |last2=Bligh |first2=Michelle C. |last3=Kohles |first3=Jeffrey C. |date=July 10, 2019 |title=Leadership as a Reflection of Who We Are: Social Identity, Media Portrayal, and Evaluations of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11199-019-01070-8 |journal=Sex Roles |language=en |publisher=Springer |volume=82 |issue=7–8 |page=431 |doi=10.1007/s11199-019-01070-8 |s2cid=199165454 |issn=0360-0025 |quote=The sample comprised articles from online media outlets that have been rated as the "most extreme" on the political spectrum...and concluded that the news of the majority of these hyper-partisan outlets is frequently shared on these social media platforms...we included a total of eight media outlets in our analysis: four left-leaning news outlets — Bipartisan Report, Forward Progressive, Occupy Democrat, Palmer Report... |via=ProQuest|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Guess|first1=Andrew M.|last2=Lerner|first2=Michael|last3=Lyons|first3=Benjamin|last4=Montgomery|first4=Jacob M.|last5=Nyhan|first5=Brendan|author-link5=Brendan Nyhan|last6=Reifler|first6=Jason|last7=Sircar|first7=Neelanjan|date=2020-07-07|title=A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India|url=https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2020/06/17/1920498117.DCSupplemental/pnas.1920498117.sapp.pdf|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=117|issue=27|pages=15536–15545|doi=10.1073/pnas.1920498117|pmc=7355018|pmid=32571950|bibcode=2020PNAS..11715536G |doi-access=free}}

Sources supporting that the Palmer Report is known for unsubstantiated or false claims include:

• {{cite news |last=Blake |first=Aaron |date=August 22, 2017 |title=Trump backers' alarming reliance on hoax and conspiracy theory websites, in 1 chart |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/22/trump-backers-disturbing-reliance-on-hoax-and-conspiracy-theory-websites-in-1-chart/ |access-date=July 1, 2021 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=January 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105084340/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/22/trump-backers-disturbing-reliance-on-hoax-and-conspiracy-theory-websites-in-1-chart/ |url-status=live}}
• {{cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Joseph |date=May 11, 2017 |title=Why Is A Top Harvard Law Professor Sharing Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theories? |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/larry-tribe-why |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=BuzzFeed News |language=en |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306155956/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/larry-tribe-why}}
• {{cite web |last=Barrett |first=Paul |date=March 2019 |title=Tackling Domestic Disinformation: What the Social Media Companies Need to Do |url=https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/files/documents/NYU20Domestic20Disinformation_Digital20Version.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights |page=9 |archive-date=March 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327163626/https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/files/documents/NYU20Domestic20Disinformation_Digital20Version.pdf}}
• {{cite book |last1=O'Connor |first1=Cailin |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1029889265 |title=The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread |last2=Weatherall |first2=James Owen |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-300-23401-5 |location=New Haven, CT |pages=151–152 |chapter=The Social Network |oclc=1029889265}}

Sources describing the Palmer Report as a conspiracist/conspiracy website include:

• {{cite web |last=Palma |first=Bethania |date=March 10, 2017 |title=FACT CHECK: Did an Eighth Russian with Ties to President Trump Die Suspiciously? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eighth-russian-tied-to-trump-dies/ |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=Snopes |language=en-US |quote=In early March 2017 a number of conspiratorial political blogs, including the Palmer Report...}}
• {{cite web |last=Hobbes |first=Michael |date=October 29, 2020 |title=What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers' Brains? |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/internet-baby-boomers-misinformation-social-media_n_5f998039c5b6a4a2dc813d3d |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630023049/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/internet-baby-boomers-misinformation-social-media_n_5f998039c5b6a4a2dc813d3d |archive-date=June 30, 2021 |access-date=July 1, 2021 |website=HuffPost |language=en |quote=Both liberals and conservatives get their news from sources that range from mainstream, credible outlets...to fringe partisan and conspiratorial websites (Breitbart, Palmer Report').}}
• {{cite web |last=Cassidy |first=Chris |date=May 11, 2017 |title=Ed Markey issues mea culpa for grand jury claim |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2017/05/11/ed-markey-issues-mea-culpa-for-grand-jury-claim/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324164321/https://www.bostonherald.com/2017/05/11/ed-markey-issues-mea-culpa-for-grand-jury-claim/ |archive-date=March 24, 2021 |access-date=July 2, 2021 |website=Boston Herald |language=en-US |quote=...the senator got the information from two conspiracy blogs: one run by Louise Mensch, a former Tory member of the British Parliament, and the Palmer Report, a left-wing website.}}
• {{cite web |last=Emery |first=David |date=October 21, 2017 |title=FACT CHECK: Was an Attack on United States Soldiers in Niger a Debacle 'Worse than Benghazi'? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-niger-attack-worse-than-benghazi/ |access-date=July 3, 2021 |website=Snopes |language=en-US |quote=...the incident appeared on the left-leaning conspiracist web site Palmer Report...}}
• {{cite magazine |last=Dickey |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Dickey |date=June 8, 2017 |title=The New Paranoia |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/142977/new-paranoia-trump-election-turns-democrats-conspiracy-theorists |url-status=live |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608053036/https://newrepublic.com/article/142977/new-paranoia-trump-election-turns-democrats-conspiracy-theorists |archive-date=June 8, 2021 |quote=Another left-wing node of conspiratorial diffusion can be found at The Palmer Report...}}

Sources supporting that the Palmer Report is known for publishing conspiracy theories include:

• {{cite news |last=Coppins |first=McKay |author-link=McKay Coppins |date=July 2, 2017 |title=How the Left Lost Its Mind |work=The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223012416/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/ |archive-date=December 23, 2017 |access-date=July 3, 2017 |quote=The Palmer Report, a liberal blog known for peddling conspiracy theories...}}
• {{cite book |last=McAfee |first=David G. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1192499268 |title=The Curious Person's Guide to Fighting Fake News |date=2020 |publisher=Pitchstone Publishing |isbn=978-1-63431-207-3 |location=Durham |oclc=1192499268 |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703031113/https://www.worldcat.org/title/curious-persons-guide-to-fighting-fake-news/oclc/1192499268 |url-status=live |quote=The Palmer Report is another 'news site' that provides skewed content (with a liberal twist) featuring sensational headlines and stories with unverified conspiracy theories.}}
• {{cite magazine |last=Jones |first=Sarah |date=2017-05-10 |title=Stop promoting liberal conspiracy theories on Twitter. |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/142650/stop-promoting-liberal-conspiracy-theories-twitter |access-date=2021-07-15 |issn=0028-6583 |archive-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317155931/https://newrepublic.com/article/142650/stop-promoting-liberal-conspiracy-theories-twitter |url-status=live}}
• {{cite web |last=Peyser |first=Eve |date=May 2, 2018 |title=Just Stop Listening to Celebs' Awful Political Opinions |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/kanye-doesnt-know-anything-stop-listening-to-him/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 2, 2021 |website=Vice |language=en |archive-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703031112/https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5awjb/kanye-doesnt-know-anything-stop-listening-to-him |quote=... the Palmer Report, a compilation of nonsense liberal conspiracy theories ...}}
• {{cite magazine |last=Heer |first=Jeet |author-link=Jeet Heer |date=2017-05-23 |title=No, Liberals Are Not Falling for Conspiracy Theories Just Like Conservatives Do |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/142828/no-liberals-not-falling-conspiracy-theories-just-like-conservatives |access-date=2021-07-16 |issn=0028-6583 |archive-date=June 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610072513/https://newrepublic.com/article/142828/no-liberals-not-falling-conspiracy-theories-just-like-conservatives |url-status=live}}
• {{cite web |last=Beauchamp |first=Zack |date=May 19, 2017 |title=Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia |url=https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/19/15561842/trump-russia-louise-mensch |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512105300/https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/19/15561842/trump-russia-louise-mensch |archive-date=May 12, 2020 |website=Vox |access-date=May 15, 2020}}

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