Joseph Francis Farah (born July 6, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and editor-in-chief of the far-right[1] website WorldNetDaily (WND).

[10] Farah worked for six years as executive news editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner until the paper shuttered in 1989.

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.

[17][18][19][20] 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.

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.