Joseph Farah

Joseph Francis Farah (born July 6, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and editor-in-chief of the far-right website WorldNetDaily (WND). Farah gained prominence for promoting conspiracy theories surrounding the suicide of Vince Foster and is a proponent of birtherism, a debunked conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. and his mother was of French Canadian ancestry. His father was a schoolteacher.

On July 22, 1990, Farah became editor of The Sacramento Union. The paper had been losing up to $3 million annually, and in early 1990 it was purchased from Richard Mellon Scaife by Daniel Benvenuti Jr. and David Kassis.

He launched the online WorldNetDaily in 1997.

In April 2019, WorldNetDaily announced that Farah had suffered a stroke and would withdraw from the website's day-to-day operations until he recovers. stating, "It'll plague Obama throughout his presidency. It'll be a nagging issue and a sore on his administration, much like Monica Lewinsky was on Bill Clinton's presidency" and "It's not going to go away, and it will drive a wedge in an already divided public." he continued to promote birtherism. Farah offered a $15,000 award for the release of the certificate, but did not pay the award after its release.

Personal life

He is married to Elizabeth Graham and is a conservative evangelical Christian.