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January 27, 2021updated 30 Sep 2022 9:58am

Top 50 largest news websites in the world: Surge in traffic to Epoch Times and other right-wing sites

By Aisha Majid

Right-wing outlets remained the fastest-growing news websites globally in December, according to Press Gazette’s latest analysis of the most popular news websites.

In an updated global ranking of the top 50 English-language news sites prepared by SimilarWeb for Press Gazette, pro-Trump right-wing title The Epoch Times made it into the ranking for the first time after seeing a 421% growth since December 2019 from 10.2m to 53.4m visits per month – more than any other site in the top 50. Backed by the Fulang Gong sect, Epoch Times has become a home for anti-China conspiracy theories around coronavirus.

[LATEST: Sputnik, Drudge and Fox see biggest traffic falls in February 2021]

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