Uncut-News

Uncut News is the name of a right-wing extremist Swiss media platform. It is spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories and is referred as a truther-blog.

According to its own information, the editorial office is located in Winterthur, Switzerland. However, according to Similarweb, 65 percent of "uncut-news.ch" is accessed from Germany. According to the web traffic monitoring service Similarweb, the site had 3.2 to 3.6 million visits per month in 2021/22.

The site claims to have been launched in 2015 due to its one-sided reporting on the Ukraine crisis. The editors and the background are tried to keep in the dark: there are no names of responsible persons on the website. Although the portal presents itself as being run by an editorial team, according to research by the Tagesanzeiger newspaper, it was actually founded by Horst W. He ran a video store on Bollstrasse in Seen Winterhur for years, later an online distribution business with a pick-up warehouse. He also distributes films on his portal uncut.ch..

Often the website is commenting or re-posting text from conservative US-american blogger and commentators, sometimes spreading conspiracy theories. The authors of the articles are usually not named. However, some do include their names. Among them are the Swiss conspiracy theorist Peter Koenig and the German non-fiction author Uwe Froschauer.

Content

On the site, climate change is being denied, conspiracies about the coronavirus pandemic are being spread, and the Holocaust is being denied.

A headline on "Uncut News" read: "The Holocaust is the greatest and most enduring lie in history." Ursula Haverbeck, a Holocaust denier who has been convicted multiple times in court, is being called an "enlightener." The judge who sentenced her to eight months in prison is being called a "bloodthirsty demon in human form."

Another headline describes the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp as a "sanctuary of lies."

Uncut-News is spreading russian Propaganda narratives. The Website is being widely shared in German-language pro-Russian Telegram groups, as Cemas has analyzed: it ranked fifth in the first week since the war began, with almost 2,000 links.

Network

Un-Cut News thrives on the fact that its articles are shared by other right-wing media outlets. This often gives them a certain credibility. In 2016, FPÖ politician Heinz-Christian Strache shared a video from Uncut News on his Facebook page with 400,000 users.