Christwire

Christwire is a satirical website that publishes blog-style articles intended to ridicule excesses of American Christian conservatives. Recurring topics include homosexuality, atheism, Hollywood, and other purported threats to American culture.[1][2][3][4]

Christwire
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Type of site
Satirical blog
Available inEnglish
Alexa rank 51,376
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive

Like similar satirical websites, Christwire's stories have sometimes been erroneously taken at face value.[2]

Topekasnews

Due to the wide public attention at the name Christwire, the site also runs topekasnews.com.[5][6][7][8][9]

One satirical news article by "Haywood Bynum III" pronounced that "Edible Marijuana Candies Kill 9 in Colorado, 12 at Coachella." The Drug Abuse Resistance Education anti-drug organization copied the article onto their website without fact checking the satirical article.[10][11]

gollark: If that somehow happened there would be bigger problems, like "oh dear global civilisation collapsed, how will I get food and water".
gollark: And it'll have to contend with whatever accursed proprietary mess the existing stuff runs.
gollark: Prosthetics are probably better since they'd only need access to some peripheral nerves.
gollark: I would only trust them if they had an entirely ground-up formally-verified software stack and entirely open-source code/firmware/hardware. Which is unlikely given the pressures to make development go as fast as possible.
gollark: Oops, your neural interface's wireless card has a remotely exploitable vulnerability, your memories will now be overwritten with rickrolls.

See also

References
  1. John Hudson (August 19, 2010). "Satirical Christian Site Hoodwinks the Huffington Post". The Atlantic Wire.
  2. John Hudson (February 1, 2011). "Rachel Maddow and NBC Struggle With Satire". The Atlantic Wire.
  3. Katla McGlynn (August 18, 2010). "9 Signs Your Husband Is GAY, According To ChristWire.org (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post.
  4. "Line of inquiry crosses a line". The Sydney Morning Herald. August 19, 2010.
  5. "Heathen TopekasNews Liberals Detest Reaganomics". ChristWire. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  6. "Christians Review, "Scooby Doo, The First Atheist Brainwashing Cartoon" - Topekas News". topekasnews.com.
  7. "Scooby Doo, The First Atheist Brainwashing Cartoon Reviewed". ChristWire.
  8. "The Popular Story of the Kansas City Prayer Booths Is False, But the Brilliant Artist Behind the Booth is Genuine". Friendly Atheist.
  9. Marijuana Cures Republican Pastor of Stupidity Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Edible Marijuana Candies Kill 9 in Colorado, 12 at Coachella". D.A.R.E. America. Archived from the original on 4 May 2015.
  11. Christopher Ingraham (4 May 2015). "D.A.R.E. gets duped by anti-pot satire". Washington Post.
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