Type of site Satirical blog Website www.christwire.org Commercial No | Available in English Alexa rank 51,376 | |
Slogan(s) Conservative Values for an Unsaved World | ||
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.
Like similar satirical websites, Christwire's stories have sometimes been erroneously taken at face value.
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Due to the wide public attention at the name Christwire, the site also runs topekasnews.com.
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.
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