The People's Voice (formerly known as NewsPunch and Your News Wire) is an American fake news website that publishes hoaxes and conspiracy theories. TPV was founded in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and his husband, Sinclair Treadway.
The site has been identified as a major purveyor of fake news stories, including false stories about celebrity cannibalism.
A 2017 BuzzFeed News report identified NewsPunch as being the second-largest source of popular fake stories spread on Facebook that year, and a June 2018 Poynter Institute analysis identified NewsPunch as being debunked over 80 times in 2017 and 2018 by International Fact-Checking NetworkâÂÂaccredited factcheckers such as Snopes, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and the Associated Press.
The European Union's East StratCom Task Force has criticized NewsPunch for spreading Russian propaganda, a charge Adl-Tabatabai denies.
The People's Voice, NewsPunch, and Your News Wire have published false stories, including:
The site was founded as Your News Wire in 2014, based in Los Angeles. In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch. Your News Wire was revived as a separate website in November 2020, and has continued publishing hoaxes similar to those in NewsPunch. In 2023, NewsPunch adopted its current name, The People's Voice.
Contributors to the site have include Adl-Tabatabai, a former BBC and MTV employee from London previously an employee of conspiracy theorist David Icke; Adl-Tabatabai's mother Carol Adl, an alternative health practitioner; and Baxter Dmitry, who had previously been posing as an unrelated Latvian man using a stolen profile photo.