Sorcha Faal reports

Sorcha Faal is the byline under which reports of conspiracy theories are published at the website whatdoesitmean.com. It has been described in the United States by The Washington Post as an "ultra-fringe conspiracy theory Web site", and according to FactCheck.org, it is "widely known as a fake news source that focuses on conspiracy theories" and contains a disclaimer that "some events depicted in certain articles on this website are fictitious".
In 2010 the People's Daily in China named a Faal report about a stargate opening in the Gulf of Aden as one of their top-10 rumor/conspiracy stories for the year 2010. In 2015, The Atlantic magazine described whatdoesitmean.com as a "conspiracy website" which had suggested that the Central Intelligence Agency was responsible for the downing of Metrojet Flight 9268. In 2014, the site reported that a nuclear artillery shell had gone missing from a US military base; in fact a pistol had gone missing and the US Army had not had any nuclear artillery shells for 22 years at that time. In 2016, The Huffington Post noted a report alleging that a meteorite was to blame for EgyptAir Flight 804 crashing into the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May 2016 according to "an intriguing Ministry of Defence report circulating the Kremlin." The Huffington Post described the claim as "bizarre" and Whatdoesitmean as a "somewhat dubious source".
Also in 2016, Media Matters for America reported that Fox News Channel television host Sean Hannity cited a report originating from the whatdoesitmean.com website baselessly claiming that 20,000 of Hillary Clinton's emails might be released by the Kremlin.

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