November 16, 2016 08:48AM
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This election cycle has been home to a lot of interesting things. One common issue was websites purporting to be "authentic conservative news sources" that turned out to actually publish fake stories. It was a very noticeable phenomenon: Many people have noticed large groups of so-called "news" websites that look somewhat authentic at first glance, but upon closer look, most of them were created less than a year ago, many share the same cookie cutter layouts, and many aren't even registered to citizens in the US at all: [
www.reddit.com]
For example, two days before the election started, a story with the headline "FBI AGENT SUSPECTED IN HILLARY EMAIL LEAKS FOUND DEAD IN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE" started circulating around facebook. It ended up with over 500,000 shares. The source of this article was the Denver Guardian, a news website that purported to be "Denver's Oldest News Source". However, the Denver Post, an actual news organization based in the city of Denver, had never heard of this competitor. After some rigorous investigation, it turns out that the Denver Guardian does not exist, its website was registered in July 2016, and the address listed as its newsroom leads to a vacant lot in Colfax. They posted the full investigation here: [
www.denverpost.com]. Over the last few days of the election, this fake news article received more shares than any article from the New York Times or the Chicago Tribune, actual major metro newspapers that have been around for over a century, and which run huge organizations with dedicated fact checkers, careful editors, and a long list of journalism awards.
It turns out that a huge portion of these stories are on shell websites created by teenagers in foreign countries looking for ad revenue. Over 100 of these fake news websites were traced to a small town in Macedonia, formerly part of the Yugoslavian Republic. Interestingly enough, although the teenagers attempted to make left-wing fake news sites alongside their right-wing fake news sites, they were unable to generate many clicks or facebook shares with them. Apparently, only conservative media was willing to circulate their articles. [
www.buzzfeed.com]
Its gotten so bad that google has started to remove them from its ad revenue program, in the hope of cutting hyperpartisan fake news out of the media: [
www.pbs.org]
*tl;dr:* My friends, please do NOT believe everything you hear on facebook. If you don't trust American Media, stick with the BBC or the Guardian, or even Al-Jazeera if you're looking for a different perspective. They are owned by non-American citizens and have zero stake in any political party. Many of the largest fake news sites have facebook pages with hundreds of thousands of followers, and it just boggles me.
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2016 08:53AM by vortexmagus.
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