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Webliography on fake news
In the summer of 2016, young people in Veles, shifted their attention from playing Counter-Strike together, to create hundreds of websites by copying-and-pasting content to target Facebook groups with the most lucrative web-advertising potential, according to Wired magazine. Using about 200 "bogus Facebook profiles"—which cost about "ten cents" under a Russian name—one teenager specifically targeted Facebook groups of Donald Trump supporters during the 2016 Presidential election after learning through trial and error that his websites were this group d soon discovered that the most lucrative topics were those related to [1]
References
[edit]- ^ Samanth Subramanian (February 2017), "Fake news factory to the world", Wired, pp. 69–77, retrieved March 3, 2017
See also
[edit]- Inside a Fake News Sausage Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’ By Andrew Higgins, Mike McIntire and Gabriel J.X. Dance November 25, 2016