This research explores the alternative media ecosystem through a Twitter lens. Over a ten-month period, we collected
tweets related to alternative narratives—e.g. conspiracy theories—of mass shooting events. We utilized tweeted
URLs to generate a domain network, connecting domains shared by the same user, then conducted qualitative analysis
to understand the nature of different domains and how they connect to each other. Our findings demonstrate how alternative
news sites propagate and shape alternative narratives, while mainstream media deny them. We explain how political
leanings of alternative news sites do not align well with a U.S. left-right spectrum, but instead feature an antiglobalist
(vs. globalist) orientation where U.S. Alt-Right sites look similar to U.S. Alt-Left sites. Our findings describe a subsection of the emerging alternative media ecosystem and provide insight in how websites that promote conspiracy theories and pseudo-science may function to conduct underlying political agendas.