03 Dec 16 08:52, I wrote to you:

 ml> as individuals, we're not really all that important... however, as a
group,
 ml> we are very important... just look at what those few teenagers from veles,
 ml> macedonia did...

 ml> [quote]
 ml> Veles made international news in 2016 when it was revealed that a group of
 ml> teenagers in the town were controlling over 100 websites producing fake
 ml> news articles in support of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump,
which
 ml> were heavily publicised on the social media site Facebook, and may have
 ml> influenced the result of the election. [/quote]

here's a bit more followup on the above...

https://apnews.com/12fc49ad3b694f35b5c4a08513ec8d33

[quote]
"The fake news is the good news," the 18-year-old said, pointing to a graph
showing his audience figures, which reached into the hundreds of thousands, a
bling watch clasped firmly around his wrist. "A fake news article is way more
opened than any other."

[...]

He showed the AP how he ripped much of his material off The Political Insider,
a right-wing news site that produces a steady drumbeat of pro-Donald Trump
pieces. He then flipped over to Google Analytics, an audience tracking tool,
to show that he'd managed to gather more than 685,000 page views a week.

The teen said his monthly revenue was in the four figures, a considerable sum
in a country where the average monthly pay is 360 euros ($383). As he
navigated his site's statistics, he dropped nuggets of journalism advice.
[/quote]

it is all about the ad revenue... just getting the ads shown pulls in the
$$$...

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