‘Pink Slime’ Sites Outnumber Daily Newspapers on the Web

Websites posing as local news outlets funded by partisan groups have surged past the number of sites of independent daily newspapers on the internet, according to a report released Tuesday by a disinformation watchdog.

According to

, a company that evaluates and rates the trustworthiness of news and information websites, the number of “pink slime” sites jumped to 1,265…