Talk:Stew Peters

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Butler, Kiera (February 3, 2023). "The far-right bounty hunter behind the explosive popularity of "died suddenly"". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

Promoter of Covid-19 misinformation

This man has been promoting Covid-19 misinformation for quite some time now. You can clearly see this on his show, which is often featured on Rumble, a news site rated as having an extreme right bias with low factual reporting according to MediaBiasFactCheck.

Wikipedia articles have been making note of people who've been spreading Covid-19 misinformation. I'm hoping someone can take the time to do it with this article. 174.251.161.213 (talk) 08:50, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

While I’m no fan of this guy, I think you need to update the article as much of his “Covid misinformation” has turned out to be true. Even his film “Died Suddenly” is factually correct, so it’s not Misinformation. 2600:1001:B11A:A55F:A5F5:C841:6D13:AF83 (talk) 20:17, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Birth State

Are we sure he was born in Minnesota? I saw some websites say he was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin and the Daily Beast article cited doesn't say he was born in Minnesota. Michaeolson (talk) 13:29, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Peters is an Internet personality not a radio personality

Stew Peters content is exclusively online Its a misnomer to call him a radio host unless we indicate that he's and "internet radio" host. None of his content is broadcast on terrestrial radio The show is in podcast form (banned from many podcast hosting sites due to anti vaxx disinfo) and is broadcast live on Rumble a right leaning Youtube like site with a low moderation policy. It should also be noted his association with white supremacist like Nick Fuentes and Peter Bimelow Kirk345 (talk) 00:51, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Right, done. Apparently he was still an intern in a radio station, left that. Robincantin (talk) 16:05, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Robincantin (talk) 13:14, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Calling India's moon landing fake

On 23aug india became the first country to achieve soft landing in the lunar south pole, but peters claimed in his X(Twitter) that "india fakes moon landing" which is being debunked by community notes. 103.139.56.213 (talk) 12:30, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just using a tweet as reference isn't great, and the statement isn't particularly notable. If proper sources comment on Peters' position (presumably to point out it's patently false), then we might be able to put it in. Robincantin (talk) 13:14, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Labeling Requirements

The majority of labels attached to this person are slanderous in that they are derogatory without offer of citation. Henceherds (talk) 23:29, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The list in the lead might be over-the-top a bit (but so is Peters...), but each term has a proper citation attached to it, so which terms are you referring to? Robincantin (talk) 23:57, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marjorie Taylor Greene

"...similarly to Marjorie Taylor Greene's statement about "Jewish space lasers""

First of all, this is factually inaccurate, as Greene never made a "statement" about "Jewish space lasers," she shared a Facebook post promoting conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds using space lasers to cause wildfires. While "Jewish space lasers" were how her comments were described in the media given the prominence of the Rothschilds in antisemitic conspiracy theories, the post she shared never actually used this phrasing. The quote is therefore both misattributed and fabricated, as these words were never used in the statement being described and the statement was not made by her.

It also doesn't mention who Marjorie Taylor Greene is. While educated readers may know that she is a sitting Congresswoman, this sentence provides zero context as to who MTG is and why the fact that she has promoted similar conspiracy theories is relevant information.

I also don't see any discernible connection between Greene and Peters aside from the fact that they are both right-wing cranks. Both cited sources mention Greene's comments, but this feels like cherrypicking irrelevant information from the articles to make a jab at someone unrelated to Peters.

At the very least, the sentence needs to be restructured to be factually accurate and properly informative, perhaps something along the lines of "mirroring antisemitic conspiracy theories about Rothschild-owned space lasers promoted by US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene." At the very least, this would be more factually accurate.

But I would go as far as to say that it should just be removed. Seems like a pointless and irrelevant jab that's been added in hastily. Greene's own Wikipedia article discusses the controversy anyway. 2604:3D08:6F7D:8050:FD33:E368:333A:7CF3 (talk) 02:32, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]