Someone Bought AlternativeFacts.com and Is Oddly Redirecting Traffic to NYT's Story

And it wasn't the Times

As the political climate gets stormier, the internet becomes weirder.

The New York Times published an article Sunday about "alternative facts" after Kellyanne Conway, senior advisor to President Donald Trump, hours earlier characterized dubious stats from White House press secretary Sean Spicer that way.

Later on Sunday, someone bought the web domain www.alternativefacts.com, which has been redirecting visitors to the Times' article. "The Times did not purchase the URL," Linda Zebian, the newspaper's director of communications, said in an email. 

So, it appears someone—an internet troll or a prankster, it would seem—purchased the domain from GoDaddy in order to … mock the article? Or perhaps the person wanted to promote the piece.

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