Molokai Advertiser-News

The paper was founded in 1984 by George G. Peabody, who is the paper's sole staff member.[3] In 1998, Peabody filed a court case against a competing free paper, The Dispatch, for unfair competition through removing copies of the Advertiser-News and replacing them with its own paper. The State of Hawaiʻi Intermediate Court of Appeals found in favor of the Molokaʻi Advertiser-News in 2000.[4]

In 1998 and 2002, Peabody ran for governor of Hawaiʻi as a Libertarian.[5][6][7] He received 4,398 votes[8] in the 1998 general election.[9][10] Peabody was also a Republican Party candidate for the gubernatorial primary election in 2006.[11][12]

Peabody has espoused Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories ("birtherism"). In 2014, Peabody emailed the Hawaii NAACP and two other African American Hawaiian groups requesting copies of their birth certificates, writing: "If you or your Negro members were born in Hawaii between 1955 to 1965, I will pay $50 for a copy of your Hawaii long form certified birth certificate." Peabody wrote that his goal was to "expose the fraud" at Hawaii Department of Health, later claiming that the state's birth certificate for the president was "clearly ... a fraud."[3] The recipients were angered by Peabody's actions, saying they were racist.[3]

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