Raw Story

===False claims===

On February 19, 2018, ''Raw Story'' published a report claiming that [[Russian web brigades|Russian trolls]] co-opting the [[Me Too movement]] had forced [[Minnesota]] senator [[Al Franken]] to resign, and that an article by writer [[Ijeoma Oluo]] had been used as part of the campaign.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Oluo told Snopes that her article had been published after Franken announced his resignation, adding: "I was hoping that the piece would give people context and help people grow from all of this into a better place."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Palma|first=Bethania|date=February 20, 2018|title=Did 'Bots' Force Al Franken to Resign?|url=https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/02/19/bots-force-al-franken-resign/|access-date=June 25, 2021|website=[[Snopes]]|language=en-US|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110041843/https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/02/19/bots-force-al-franken-resign/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Raw Story'' later retracted its report.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Ingram|first=Matthew|date=February 21, 2018|title=The media today: Are Russian trolls behind everything?|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/russian-trolls.php|access-date=June 25, 2021|website=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]|language=en|archive-date=December 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204020703/https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/russian-trolls.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

During the [[2020 United States presidential election]], ''Raw Story'' published an article on November 4, 2020, which claimed that the [[United States Postal Service]] (USPS) had failed to deliver 27 percent of [[Postal voting|mail-in ballots]] in [[South Florida]]. [[PolitiFact]] determined that the figure was based on a misreading of Postal Service data, and the USPS stated that it had skipped some steps to get ballots to election offices faster.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=Greenberg|first=Jon|date=November 5, 2020|title=Claim that postal service failed to deliver 27% of mail-in ballots in South Florida is 100% wrong|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/blog-posting/claim-postal-service-failed-deliver-27-mail-ballot/|access-date=June 24, 2021|website=[[PolitiFact]]|language=en-US|archive-date=May 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516004047/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/blog-posting/claim-postal-service-failed-deliver-27-mail-ballot/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Sadeghi|first=McKenzie|date=November 17, 2020|title=Fact check: False claim that 27% of mail-in ballots in South Florida not delivered|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/17/fact-check-false-claim-mail-ballot-delivery-south-florida/6203779002/|access-date=2021-08-21|website=[[USA Today]]|language=en-US|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023256/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/17/fact-check-false-claim-mail-ballot-delivery-south-florida/6203779002/|url-status=live}}</ref>

According to a study by researchers from the [[University of Liverpool]] and [[University of Dundee]], published in the journal ''[[Discourse & Society]]'', the headline in another 2020 article in ''Raw Story'' engaged in the [[Reification (fallacy)|fallacy of ambiguity]] by using "the phrasal verb ‘cashing in on’" to create the appearance of impropriety in reporting on a business owned by [[Jared Kushner]] when, according to Snopes, there was "no evidence that the startup is linked to any public damage".<ref name="dands">{{cite journal |title=From fallacies to semi-fake news: Improving the identification of misinformation triggers across digital media |journal=[[Discourse & Society]] |date=April 23, 2022 |volume=33 |issue=3 |first1=Elena |last1=Musi |first2=Chris |last2=Reed|pages=349–370 |doi=10.1177/09579265221076609 |s2cid=250429139 |doi-access=free }}</ref> According to the researchers, this use of "polysemous terms in news titles ... [is] potentially misleading for the majority of readers who are used to getting their daily news feed scrolling through news titles".<ref name="dands"/>