How about showing the country of record from WHOIS? Most of the severe offenders I saw in 2016 were e.g. Washington Post knockoffs using a Panama "WHOIS guard"

How about showing the country of record from WHOIS? Most of the severe offenders I saw in 2016 were e.g. Washington Post knockoffs using a Panama "WHOIS guard" mailing address, or sites that were literally registered to a street address in Macedonia (e.g. usapoliticszone.com). These are the sorts of sites that were tricking Trump devotees en masse in private groups (on Facebook and across the broader internet). Surely having a real mailing address listed in WHOIS isn't too much to ask for a news organization? Google performs real verification on mailing addresses of Maps business listings – the technical infrastructure to hard-verify WHOIS mailing addresses seems to already exist.