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11-24-2016, 08:47 PM
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"Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’"
"....Horner has found the fake-news ecosystem growing more crowded, more political and vastly more influential: In March, Donald Trump’s son Eric and his then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, even tweeted links to one of Horner’s faux-articles. His stories have also appeared as news on Google."
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’ - The Washington Post
"“This is the news of the millennium!” said the story on WorldPoliticus.com. Citing unnamed FBI sources, it claimed Hillary Clinton will be indicted in 2017 for crimes related to her email scandal.
“Your Prayers Have Been Answered,” declared the headline.
For Trump supporters, that certainly seemed to be the case. They helped the baseless story generate over 140,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook.
Meanwhile, roughly 6,000 miles away in a small town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, a young man watched as money began trickling into his Google AdSense account.
Over the past year, the Macedonian town of Veles (population 45,000) has experienced a digital gold rush as locals launched at least 140 US politics websites. These sites have American-sounding domain names such as WorldPoliticus.com, TrumpVision365.com, USConservativeToday.com, DonaldTrumpNews.co, and USADailyPolitics.com. They almost all publish aggressively pro-Trump content aimed at conservatives and Trump supporters in the US."
How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News - BuzzFeed News
Did fake news help elect Donald Trump? - Video - Business News
"“ Nobody fact-checks anything anymore–I mean, that’s how Trump got elected,” explained Paul Horner, who claims to make $10,000 per month peddling fake news, to the Washington Post. ”He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because they’d already accepted it. It’s real scary. I’ve never seen anything like it.”"
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