More Fake SF Mayoral Candidate Websites Flooding the Zone Before Election Day

The political dirty tricks are ramping up as we head to November’s SF mayoral election, as fake campaign websites are popping up in hopes of dragging down some of the leading candidates for mayor.

We reported about four months ago on a fake Mark Farrell for Mayor website, which uses the domain MarkFarrellForMayor.com, but contains all sort of mud-slinging and political attacks against SF mayoral candidate Mark Farrell. The site was clearly built and launched by someone who does not care for Mark Farrell, but there's been no confirmation on which corner the mud was being slung from.

Then in the last couple of weeks, more of these fake “campaign” websites have popped up, clearly as online political attacks against the opponents named by the website. On August 31, someone launched a website called DanielLurieForSFMayor.com, which is clearly just a low-budget hatchet job with unflattering accusations against the mayoral candidate Lurie. And the local media just noticed a new website called StopMAGAMarkFarrell.com that paints Farrell as some sort of Republican right-winger.

We should note that the anti-Farrell website, which is chock full of pictures of Donald Trump, is not an anonymous hit job like the others. It comes from a registered political action committee (PAC) called Stop MAGA Mark 2024, Opposing Farrell for Mayor, and financial disclosures show the site was thrown together for less than $3,000 (perhaps not a bad investment, because it’s generated some amount of local media coverage).




https://sfist.com/2024/09/05/more-fake-sf-mayoral-candidate-websites-flooding-the-zone-before-election-day/