One of the paper's founders was Willis Carto, a white supremacist who promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.
[5][6] Writers for the newspaper included Michael Collins Piper, whose work has been characterized as anti-semitic[7] and James P. Tucker, Jr., a longtime Spotlight reporter whose focus was the Bilderberg Group.
[citation needed] Attendees of the 2006 American Free Press/The Barnes Review, conference included[8] Arthur J. Jones, former member Nationalist Socialist White People's Party.
[9] The Southern Poverty Law Center considers it, a hate group[10] and says that it "carries stories on Zionism, secret 'New World Order' conspiracies, American Jews and Israel.
[citation needed] In a May 2011 article, contributor Mark Dankof protested the British government's attempt to shut down Press TV,[14] blaming it on "media outlets and correspondents with provable connections to the American Jewish lobby; Israeli intelligence; and Neo-Conservatives thirsting for a War of Civilizations with Iran specifically, and the Islamic world generally.