We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned
November 23, 20163:31 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
Laura Sydell
A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had the headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide." The story is completely false, but it was shared on Facebook over half a million times.
We wondered who was behind that story and why it was written. It appeared on a site that had the look and feel of a local newspaper. Denverguardian.com even had the local weather. But it only had one news story — the fake one.
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A very interesting article and well worth the read. The point that I found particularly amusing was that the dingdong who sets up all the clickbait to mock the alr-right rubes has unwittingly fed the beast he wanted to slay, though he doesn't admit it.
Call me a sick bastard, but I'm laughing because this means that the 'Alt-Right Nazi Lying Propaganda' is mostly CREATED by Democrats out to scam the internet and get rich on ad revenue (Much like a certain Leftist web operation we all know).
The dude apparently doesn't believe the Libs fall for the stuff so he orients his fiction to the 'Alt-Right,' but he's weirdly wrong about that, because the Lefties firmly believe all his fiction is actually a product of right-wing propagandists, they just won't swallow any Left-oriented fiction because it isn't backed up in any of their trusted media. And as a side note in the article indicates, younger readers of all stripes seem to be unable to tell the fake news from the real stuff.
