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The Patriot Post

The Stealth Agenda of Climate Cronyism

By: Christopher C. Horner

09/17/2018

The Patriot Post cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Christopher Horner on “Government for Rent” report. A paper written by Christopher C. Horner and published by…

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The Patriot Post has published false and misleading content since its 1996 launch. The site also publishes a newsletter that has hundreds of thousands of subscribers.104 Over the course of the pandemic, the site repeatedly touted anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, as an effective Covid treatment, and claimed that those opposing the drug’s unproven use as a treatment for Covid “have a lot of blood on their hands.”105

In one of several ad campaigns run on Facebook, The Patriot Post linked LGBT+ people to Neanderthals and chimps.106 Staff and contributors’ identities are obscured through the use of pseudonyms, however the site’s publisher and executive editor, who uses the alias “Mark Alexander” has been identified as Mark Caldwell.107 The Patriot Post, which is run by Publius Press Inc, claims to not accept advertising, instead generating revenue from donations and the sale of merchandise.108[pix]

This Patriot Post piece included in our sample aims to “debunk the climate apocalypse” and promotes the claim that “the notion that man-made global warming poses an existential threat must come to be seen as ridiculous.”109 The Patriot post does not carry advertising, but promotes options to donate or buy merchandise on every page