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The Raw Story is an alternative news site that aggregates stories from around the web and produces original journalism.

In November 2008, The Raw Story reported that the United Mine Workers of America, which had endorsed Barack Obama's presidential campaign, had come to Obama's defense after John McCain's presidential campaign criticized him for a comment he had made about coal to the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle earlier that January. Environmental journalist Andrew Revkin cited the article by The Raw Story in a post he wrote for The New York Times ' Dot Earth blog, and Curtis Brainard, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, described the article as "well-done".

In 2011, The Raw Story was among the first outlets to report on the Apple assistant Siri apparently directing users away from abortion clinics and emergency contraception, instead providing results for the definition of emergency contraception or clinics far from the user. The assistant, still in beta testing at the time, could, however, provide users with methods to acquire Viagra or use escort services. In response to the report, Apple said it was still working to improve the product.

The same year, The Raw Story was the first to report on a U.S. Air Force contract to create fake social media profiles as a means of psychological warfare to be used against terrorist cells.

In 2012, then-executive editor Megan Carpentier wrote about undergoing the invasive transvaginal ultrasound procedure.

In 2014, Jennifer Mascia published a column on gun violence after compiling records for The New York Times. The same year, the outlet broke news of the connection between San Diego State University running back Adam Muema and Raymond "Lord Rayel" Howard-Lear. Howard-Lear claimed to be a prophet and made apocalyptic predictions online. Muema left the 2014 NFL Scouting Combine early and did not attend the San Diego State Pro Day while sending cryptic messages to reporters.

In 2016, DoubleVerify, an ad verification company, included The Raw Story in its "Inflammatory Politics & News" category. Advertisers would have the ability to block ads on websites appearing in the category. Journalist Michael Moynihan has referred to The Raw Story as a "conspiracy-friendly" website.

The outlet has also reported on far-right extremists, including a report on January 6, 2021, hours before the attack in the U.S. Capitol that "predicted exactly what would happen," according to Editor & Publisher. The Raw Story was among the first to report on instigators of the riots, including an attempt to get then-President Trump to declare martial law using the Insurrection Act.

Controversies
The Raw Story has faced several claims of reporting inaccuracies and aggregating false stories. In February 2015, during the Gamergate controversy, a Wikipedia article incorrectly stated that a Wikipedia arbitration case resulted in the banning of five feminist editors. This falsehood was initially reported by The Guardian and aggregated by The Raw Story, which never issued a correction.

In October 2017, The Raw Story picked up a false story that claimed that the chief deputy for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office was a white supremacist who wanted "to rape and kill a black man or a Jew." The story was later found to be false, and activist Tim Wise, who had shared the Raw Story article on Facebook, said he would no longer share stories from the outlet due to their failure to fact-check. The story was later taken down.

In April 2018, the outlet falsely reported that Fox News put up a graph showing that they were the least trusted news network compared to CNN and MSNBC; the three networks were actually being compared with Donald Trump as a trusted source of information.

In November 2018, a college student faked being a Trump supporter and started a GoFundMe, claiming that her parents had cut her off financially. The Raw Story falsely reported that the student garnered $150,000 in donations, when the actual amount was around $200.

In October 2018, The Raw Story claimed that Meghan McCain, a co-host on The View, drew a comparison between bombs threats targeting Democrats and Republicans getting heckled at restaurants. A video of the episode showed that McCain did not directly compare the two. McCain, the daughter of the late U.S. Senator John McCain, previously disputed The Raw Story 's assertion that she "drank through" her father's cancer treatment.

During the 2020 United States presidential election, The Raw Story published an article on November 4, 2020 which claimed that the United States Postal Service (USPS) had failed to deliver 27% of mail-in ballots in South Florida. PolitiFact determined that the figure was based on a misreading of Postal Service data, and the USPS stated that it had skipped some steps to get ballots to election offices faster.