Fake News Scam Sites Advertising On Real News Sites

Virtual_Raider writes "Wired is running a story about a new twist in the never-ending quest to prove P. T. Barnum's adage. Old: Scammers are creating fake news sites that look almost like the real thing. New: They are advertising on real news sites, making it difficult for unwary readers to catch on they are being duped with fake coverage of get-rich-quick scams. Among those running the scam 'news' ads are the Huffington Post and Salon. From the article: 'The story has art, it has a sidebar, there's weather, supposed reader comments — even ads. Steadman is described as "a mother from San Francisco" — at least, when I read the article. Thanks to cutting-edge reporting techniques perfected by News 5, she will automatically move to the geolocation of your internet IP address when you read it. Look, she lives right in your neighborhood!'" Forbes also wrote about the scam news sites a couple of weeks back.

Comments

i found one..

[archestraty]

www.foxnews.com

Re:What news sites is it showing up on?

[geekoid]

Fox presents it as news and they allow any crap to be spewed under the implication of factual information.
There actual news source are highly biased.

Just to be clear:
Huffington Post and Salon are crap.

Re:What news sites is it showing up on?

[smittyoneeach]

Something about being generally savvy makes it harder for ideas like labor unions and collectivism to take root.

Re:What news sites is it showing up on?

[Red Flayer]

Something about being generally savvy makes it harder for ideas like labor unions and collectivism to take root.

And something about lack of in-depth analytical ability makes it harder for ideas like effective government action to take root :)

For all the morons on both sides of the aisle, I just have to say that libtards and conservidiots share a lot of the same traits. But I think libtards are a little more likely to think critically than the conservidiots who parrot what they've seen on Fox -- unfortunately, their lack of good,/i> critical thinking skills sometimes leads to very stupid^Wamusing positions.