On its home page FoxNews.com published a story reporting that Hillary Clinton wore an invisible earpiece, using the same dubious sourcing as a conspiracy theory site.

FoxNews.com reports in a lead story that Clinton wore a secret earpiece at the NBC town hall Wednesday night. The canard was previously broadcasted by Alex Jones’ InfoWars and, subsequently, on Drudge Report. Donald Trump Jr. even got in on it, as did Trump’s senior campaign adviser A.J. Delgado.

FoxNews.com cites as its only source a website called True Pundit, which, in turn, cites unnamed NYPD sources and (also unnamed) “experts familiar with the technology.” The InfoWars article also cited True Pundit as its only source.

The story on FoxNews.com does not have a byline. The True Pundit article also has no credited author — it is attributed to “admin.” True Pundit apparently has no masthead and lists no contact information for any of its staff.

We reached out to True Pundit and will update if we hear anything.

Perhaps deluged by web traffic driven by the FoxNews.com and InfoWars links, the True Pundit cite was frequently unable to load Thursday afternoon.

Looks like True Pundit is either under DDOS attack or just slammed with Fox News traffic. https://t.co/JSNVMjY5A7 pic.twitter.com/jeaGUnPv7x

— Anthony De Rosa (@Anthony) September 8, 2016

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Sam Reisman (@thericeman) is a staff editor at Mediaite.