I found this to very shady. He claimed that he first started with the fake news to: "then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact tha

I found this to very shady. He claimed that he first started with the fake news to: "then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction" But then why didn't he stop when that didn't work? I would guess that it's just a way to try to rationalize his shady business to himself.