While on the topic, I remember reading articles during the 2016 election where journalists were doing legit work to track down the sources of those original "fa

While on the topic, I remember reading articles during the 2016 election where journalists were doing legit work to track down the sources of those original "fake news" articles and the trail led to basically a business model that could be successful in poorer eastern european countries that just replied on clicks and they posted anything that'd garner a click. I even read an interview with one of them. Then, when the narrative shifted to it being Russian intelligence, I never heard anything like my previous story again. I'm really unclear what actually happened. Was that a progression of events, was it always Russian, was it never Russian?