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The emphasis is on humor and satire, but also to make people look critically at the [[mainstream media]]. | The emphasis is on humor and satire, but also to make people look critically at the [[mainstream media]]. | ||
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GeenStijl is a Dutch news publishing website, which has existed since 2003, and has been described as a web log. The emphasis is on humor and satire, but also to make people look critically at the mainstream media.
It also includes other sites like Dumpert (a video upload service), DASKapital (economic news), GeenStijl TV and a public broadcaster PowNed (founded in 2009, first aired on 6 September 2010).
Its parent company has been the Telegraaf Media Groep since 2006.
In 2015 it was announced that GeenStijl and the Burgercomité-EU started a petition called GeenPeil to ask a referendum for the Netherlands about the Association treaty between the European Union and Ukraine (see also Crisis in Ukraine) on 6 April 2016, was finally granted the request after the legal earned 300,000 signs. The result of this referendum was 61,1% against the treaty of the total vote.