Was TV show "The View" officially cancelled after decades on air, as a viral article claimed? No, that's not true: The story appears to have been written using AI and was published on an anonymously registered website that lists no owners or publishers. There have been no official announcements on ABC's website regarding a cancellation of The View.
The article (archived here) appeared on a website simply named "News" where it was published on February 19, 2025 under the title "Shocking News: 'The View' Officially Cancelled After Decades on Air!". It opened:
In an unexpected move that has taken the entertainment world by storm, ABC has officially announced the cancellation of the beloved daytime talk show The View after more than 25 years on the air.
The show, which has been a staple of daytime television, will air its final episode later this year, marking the end of an era in American television.
The news has sent shockwaves through fans, industry professionals, and critics alike, as many wondered what led to this abrupt decision and what this means for the future of daytime talk shows.
Lead Stories used the Hive AI Detector browser extension to analyze the a sample of the text of the story and the tool said it was '100 percent likely to be AI-Generated'
(Source: screenshot of Hive browser extension results obtained by Lead Stories on February 23, 2025 at 18:47:01 UTC)
It followed a formulaic structure often used in clickbait article headlines: a person, company or group that is liked or disliked by the intended audience for political or cultural reasons gets (fictionally) punished or rewarded in some way, for example by losing or gaining a contract, job, endorsement, business deal, award or title or, in this case, by being cancelled.
The story appeared on a site hosted on the domain name dailyjournal24hr.com. According to WHOIS data (archived here) it was registered anonymously. One section of the sidebar was labeled "Bài viết mới", which, according to Google Translate, means "New Post" in Vietnamese.
The website posts dozens of articles per day, sometimes in different languages (archived here), indicating it may be part of a content farm or spam network. It listed no contact information, owners or publishers.
Lead Stories ran searches for "The View" and "cancelled" on Google News (archived here) and on Google (limited to results on ABC's website, archived here) and found no articles or pages that indicated the show was actually cancelled.
