What's up with americatimes.org?

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11 years ago

I recently found an article on this website ( http://americatimes.org/ ) via Google. Whilst reading I noticed a weird adjective. After reading/clicking through the site a bit more I found that basically every article seemed real, but slightly randomized with odd/negative nouns/adjectives.

After some google searches I found it to be copy of the actual magazine website http://businessinsider.com

Then I noticed the frontpage top header still contained a small advertisement for the used Wordpress theme. On top of that there seem to be a whole bunch of artwork load errors/glitches floating around. These seem to have to do with the mirroring process.

My first thought was that this site might be some school project. But I couldn't find any real clues supporting this. Really only things that pointed away from that idea. Another theory, much more fun of course, would be that this is some kind of automatically generating anti USA/West propaganda site! And if you really want to get all tin foil hatty about this. How about this being a new type of a numbers station? Where the 'random' words are inserted in this mirror of another, actually existing, news site and these alterations form some kind of code. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Numbers_station )

Any Thoughts?

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