in a 2017 survey among us readers, it was voted the "least trusted news source" among american readers, just below breitbart and buzzfeed. in their news reporting, they shared a story on facebook and other social media platforms about senator mitch mcconnell's polio treatment that was unverified. in the same year, politifact included occupy democrats in its list of fake news. in 2017 however, politifact removed occupy democrats from its list of fake news sites and, according to the "miami new times", "admitted occupy democrats should never have been on the list in the first place." in 2018, the english wikipedia deprecated occupy democrats as a source of fact, "due to its unreliability".