Some fake news outlets deliberately mimic legitimate news brands to exploit trust

Evidence

There are so many “news” sources these days that it is nearly impossible to tell which of them are reliable and which are not without some careful vetting. Then there is the problem that some of the sources have taken on clever disguises to try to make themselves look as legitimate as possible. Is ABCNews.com.co a part of ABC News? It is not. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 194

Categorization

• DEFINE: ABCNews.com.co exemplifies the ‘lookalike domain’ tactic central to fake news operations.
• XREF: connects to: Fact-check warnings fail to stop repeated fake headlines gaining perceived truth — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 70; Astroturfed audience plants gain credibility from displacing party authorship — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1792