Security News > 2024 > March > News farm impersonates 60+ major outlets: BBC, CNN, CNBC, Guardian...
Content farm operates 60+ 'news' websites.
BleepingComputer has identified a network of more than five dozen "News" websites that impersonate leading media outlets like the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Crunchbase, Forbes, Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Metro, The Mirror, The Telegraph, Reuters, Washington Times, and Washington Post.
These websites repost existing news articles taken from other sources verbatim under an "Admin" author account without proper attribution, effectively plagiarising them from credible media outlets and research organizations.
The lure could be tempting to unsuspecting readers interested in promoting their products, who could be confusing these lookalike websites with legitimate media outlets that they mimic.
Any content or 'news' published on these websites should not be trusted to be coming from authoritative news sources and should be independently fact-checked.
Even if the proprietors of this business can get away with trademark violations by claiming that the names of their websites are sufficiently different from established Western media outlets and that they operate in a different geographical location, the content that these websites are blatantly reposting is still copyrighted, and subject to legal disputes.