From an article in The Guardian 2/30/24 By Eric Berger:
Headline: “Deluge of ‘pink slime’ websites threaten to drown out truth with fake news in US election”
Sub-head: “News sites pushing misinformation are proliferating, aiming to look like reliable sources as local newspapers close down”
“Political groups on the right and left are using fake news websites designed to look like reliable sources of information to fill the void left by the demise of local newspapers, raising fears of the impact that they might have during the United States’ bitterly fought 2024 election.
“Some media experts are concerned that the so-called pink slime websites, often funded domestically, could prove at least as harmful to political discourse and voters’ faith in media and democracy as foreign disinformation efforts in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.”