Re:Inside a Fake News Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’
by candiodari on Friday November 25, 2016 @11:39PM
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The weird thing is, it doesn't seem to have affected the election at all. From the article:
> He set up a website, posted gushing stories about Hillary Clinton and waited for ad sales to soar. “I don’t know why, but it did not work,” said the student, Beqa Latsabidze, 22, who was savvy enough to change course when he realized what did drive traffic: laudatory stories about Donald J. Trump that mixed real — and completely fake — news in a stew of anti-Clinton fervor.
> But he, too, discovered that writing about Mr. Trump was a “gold mine.”
> “It’s all Trump,” Mr. Egan said by telephone. “People go nuts for it.”
Is it possible fake Trump news was the result, and not the cause, of Trump's appeal to the American people ? There's more in the paragraphs below that makes one think this is the case.
> He set up a website, posted gushing stories about Hillary Clinton and waited for ad sales to soar. “I don’t know why, but it did not work,” said the student, Beqa Latsabidze, 22, who was savvy enough to change course when he realized what did drive traffic: laudatory stories about Donald J. Trump that mixed real — and completely fake — news in a stew of anti-Clinton fervor.
> But he, too, discovered that writing about Mr. Trump was a “gold mine.”
> “It’s all Trump,” Mr. Egan said by telephone. “People go nuts for it.”
Is it possible fake Trump news was the result, and not the cause, of Trump's appeal to the American people ? There's more in the paragraphs below that makes one think this is the case.