The fastest growing news websites
Right-wing outlets remained the fastest-growing news websites globally in December, UK´s Press Gazette says in an analysis of the most popular news websites.
In an updated global ranking of the top 50 English-language news sites prepared by SimilarWeb for Press Gazette,
Pro-Trump right-wing title The Epoch Times made it into the ranking for the first time after seeing a 421% growth since December 2019 from 10.2m to 53.4m visits per month – more than any other site in the top 50, according to a global ranking by SimilarWeb for Press Gazette. The rest of the top 50 continues to be primarily made up of mainstream news websites from the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
“Backed by the Fulang Gong sect, Epoch Times has become a home for anti-China conspiracy theories around coronavirus. Another pro-Trump site, The Gateway Pundit, also saw huge growth in December as the now-ex president of the US was eschewed by mainstream media.”
”News- based social video platform BitChute, which has been described as a right-wing alternative to YouTube, also entered the list following a 216% growth in clicks from 13.9 million to 44 million.”
Breitbart and the Gateway Pundit (both right-wing news sites) maintained their spots on the overall top 50, coming in 32nd and 36th place respectively.
BBC.co.uk and BBC.com combined once again came out on top with 1.3 billion website visits in December which, while slightly lower than last month’s figures, is up 43% since December 2019.
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