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WorldNetDaily (Opinion)

U.S. far-right

Owned byWorldNetDaily.com, Inc., majority-owned by founder Joseph Farah and the Western Journalism Center; a minority share is held by undisclosed investors who provided $4.5 million in seed funding in 1999
FundingOnline advertising, book publishing (WND Books), and an e-commerce store selling conservative merchandise; reader donations also solicited
On the administrationbroadly supportive

Background

WorldNetDaily was launched in May 1997 by Joseph Farah, a former editor of the Sacramento Union and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, making it one of the earliest independent online news operations in the United States. It began as a project of the Western Journalism Center, a conservative nonprofit Farah co-founded, before being spun off in 1999 as a for-profit company backed by $4.5 million from investors whose identities Farah has declined to disclose publicly. The site built a large following among conservative readers in the early 2000s by combining breaking news aggregation with sharp right-wing commentary. WND became particularly well known—and widely criticized—for heavily promoting the 'birther' conspiracy theory, the false claim that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Media watchdogs including Media Bias/Fact Check rate WND as 'Extreme Right' with low factual reliability, and Ad Fontes Media places it in the 'Hyper-Partisan Right / Unreliable' category. The Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked WND as a platform that has amplified white nationalist voices and conspiracy content. Since Trump's return to office in January 2025, WND has published regular pro-administration roundups and framed its coverage as an antidote to mainstream media it characterizes as irredeemably anti-Trump.

Sources

  1. WorldNetDaily – Wikipedia
  2. World Net Daily (WND) – Bias and Credibility – Media Bias/Fact Check
  3. WND Bias and Reliability – Ad Fontes Media
  4. WorldNetDaily – SourceWatch
  5. WorldNetDaily – SPLC Extremist Files
  6. WorldNetDaily – Bias and Reliability – Biasly
  7. Joseph Farah – Wikipedia

Profile compiled 2026-08-09; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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