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Recently towards the end of the election I went through my feed blocking various news sites from even appearing; left or right, but especially many of the sites
by RandomInteger4 10y ago
Recently towards the end of the election I went through my feed blocking various news sites from even appearing; left or right, but especially many of the sites found in the link above.
That being said, seeing the sites from the link above, it seems like there are more tabloid/fake sites being shared by the conservative side of the isle. I wonder if this has anything to do with those Macedonians and similar people that took advantage of the fearmongering of Trump to make a profit or if those sites have always been around.
- Symbiote 10y agoMacedonia? How is Macedonia related to this?
- CrazedGeek 10y agoIt's in reference to this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...
- hokkos 10y agohttps://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...
- stanleydrew 10y agoThere was a story in BuzzFeed a couple days ago about how there are like 140 fake conservative news sites all basically run by teenagers out of a single Macedonian town. For Adsense revenue. https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo?utm_term=.cigAoEJO2#.sray1om7R https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...
- mmalone 10y agoThere was talk recently about how "a lot of Macedonian teenagers" were creating clickbait fake news sites to make a dime on Facebook. They figured out the formula that excited a certain cohort into lots of shares & clicks and they used it to make ad money. Here's the thing: anyone who uses this site knows that algorithmic ranking systems are gameable. There are some protections against individuals or small groups repeatedly gaming the system, but Facebook has put a profit motive behind it. That, and stopping all of /pol/, or the 280,000 members from /r/The_Donald is not so easy.
- denzil_correa 10y ago> That being said, seeing the sites from the link above, it seems like there are more tabloid/fake sites being shared by the conservative side of the isle. I noticed this too. The percentage of verified news sources is very low on the conservative feed.