Available in English Created by Alexander Portelli | Owner Prntly LLC Editor Joshua Barton | |
Type of site Politics
News and opinion Slogan(s) Prntly America's Top News Site | ||
Prntly: America's Top News Site (known simply as Prntly) is an American online media website that supports politically conservative causes. It was founded in 2015 by Alexander Portelli, a libertarian activist and former mayoral candidate in Albany New York. Prntly is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
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Creation
Prntly started off as a Printing Website in New Hampshire for libertarian candidates statewide. A blog section devoted to business and politics was developed by Portelli as Donald Trump announced his candidacy. Prntly gained fame in the 2016 election for being the only company that accurately predicted a Donald Trump victory with the correct margins and correct states.
Reception
The website has seen massive growth in readership in the first year of operation, jumping from an anonymous print site with a blog to being one of the top 2500 sites in the United States, with an average monthly visitor rate of two million people. The Washington Post reported that, while a candidate, Donald Trump himself read the website for his news.
Criticism
The website was described in an opinion piece by RedState, as having a standard method of writing stories: "[they] cut and paste text from stories about Donald Trump or Ted Cruz and then give them made up headlines, right off the National Enquirer's editing room floor...[they also run] another site called Marshallreport.com. That site is a pro Bernie Sanders one, and it too cuts and paste stories together with sensational headlines."
It was described by Snopes as "a disreputable outlet that has a penchant for publishing both fake news and spurious pro-Trump articles." Prntly addresses several of the criticisms against it on its website. In regards to publishing fake news, Prntly responds in its About Us section "One simply needs to visit WikiLeaks, Breitbart, or any other website to see why the previous websites love to bash us. We tell the story the Corporate Media does NOT want you to hear about."