Leading up to the election Macedonian teenagers pumped out a bunch of pro Trump made up "news" for profit. They didn't care about Trump per se, they went where

Leading up to the election Macedonian teenagers pumped out a bunch of pro Trump made up "news" for profit. They didn't care about Trump per se, they went where the money was. Pro Trump got the page views like nothing else. The stories were mainly spread through Facebook shares. https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became... >"Yes, the info in the blogs is bad, false, and misleading but the rationale is that 'if it gets the people to click on it and engage, then use it,'" said a university student in Veles[a Macedonian town] who started a US politics site