Misinformation site Gateway Pundit is dominating coverage of Arizona's election audit By Melissa Goldin, Kendrick McDonald and Sam Howard On 7/13/21 at 9:53 PM EDT Misinformation site Gateway Pundit dominates coverage of Maricopa County's election audit; grabs over five percent of all social media engagement on news articles. As purveyors of mis- and disinformation related to the 2020 elections have turned their attention to a partisan audit of ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, one website has played an outsized role in promoting the story and spreading related false claims — The Gateway Pundit. According to NewsGuard's analysis of data from NewsWhip, a social media intelligence company, The Gateway Pundit — a Red-rated (meaning generally unreliable) conservative news and commentary website with a history of advancing false claims —