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Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com)
"In Macedonia the economy is very weak and teenagers are not allowed to work, so we need to find creative ways to make some money," one 17-year-old told BuzzFeed News, which reports on a "strange hub" of over 140 political sites, all being run in the same small town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
These sites have American-sounding domain names such as WorldPoliticus.com, TrumpVision365.com, USConservativeToday.com, DonaldTrumpNews.co, and USADailyPolitics.com. They almost all publish aggressively pro-Trump content aimed at conservatives and Trump supporters in the U.S...
The young Macedonians who run these sites say they don't care about Donald Trump. They are responding to straightforward economic incentives... The fraction-of-a-penny-per-click of U.S. display advertising -- a declining market for American publishers -- goes a long way in Veles. Several teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook -- and the best way to generate shares on Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that caters to Trump supporters... Most of the posts on these sites are aggregated, or completely plagiarized, from fringe and right-wing sites in the U.S...
Earlier this year they experimented with fake sites supporting Bernie Sanders, "but nothing performed as well on Facebook as Trump content," according to the 16-year-old who operates BVANews.com. The largest Macedonian sites now have hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook, and sources close to one site say it earns $5,000 per month, and has even earned $3,000 in a single day.
Earlier this year they experimented with fake sites supporting Bernie Sanders, "but nothing performed as well on Facebook as Trump content," according to the 16-year-old who operates BVANews.com. The largest Macedonian sites now have hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook, and sources close to one site say it earns $5,000 per month, and has even earned $3,000 in a single day.
If it's from buzzfeed, it's trash. I'm very comfortable using an absolute here, because even if it's verifiable and posted on other sites, buzzfeed will find a way to fuck it all up.
The fastest way to make a buck if you don't care about anything in the way of integrity, is to tell people what they want to hear.
It's an almost guaranteed way to enrich yourself, and if there are no consequences, some people will do it.
And let's face it, the Pro-Trump crowd wants to hear what they've been told, and hear it more, and more, and nothing else.
That is how he got their votes. No surprise somebody else is skimming off the chum.
There's a rule that anger is the most effective way to spread a meme - people are more likely to talk about something which makes them mad than something which makes them happy.
This is news that we could have used A YEAR AGO! What's the point in revealing it just days before the election?
Said Buzzfeed
What was that thing about pot and kettle?
Teenagers in Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites
Why are they named fake? Do they pretend, maybe, being a website but, in reality, don't work? Much like a wooden fake toy airplane, maybe?
Those sites look like every common news outlet these days.
Better headline:
Pro-Trump sites generate income for their creators, worldwide.
There you are.
If this worked best on Trump supporters, is it because they're the only group who is incapable deciphering a fake news site from a real one?
Consider the audience. These are the people who scream that Snopes is "rigged," and whose primary source for news (Breitbart) is published by someone on their candidate's payroll, for fuck's sake. There's not too terribly much objectivity or critical thinking taking place in that world.
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
The dispute is over cultural appropriation of Alexander the Great; however given the phenomenon of pedigree collapse nobody really has much of a claim to a culture that existed 2300 years ago unless they practiced very strict endogamy (e.g. the Jews) over all that time. It's a bit like the Italians going after Cincinnati for appropriating Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.
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Is there a list of these domains that I am not seeing? I'll happily just block all of them.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
If the Macedonians want Trump as their leader, they can have him.
I don't think he will be leading their army into battle like Alexander, in spite of his rhetoric.
The base of Trump support is poorly educated white men.
They believe lots of easily disproven lies.
It's hardly surprising that they would click on more false clickbait.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
I think you just nailed their campaign slogan. Trump commits to ending all uncomfortable truths!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Affer all, the guy they are faking to support is abig orange, pussygrabbing fake.
I would imagine that they are as genetically "Macedonian" as ancient Macedonians (who were viewed as a sort non-Greek fringe Hellenic group before they began gaining significant power under Alexander's ancestors). Language isn't bound by genetic barriers, as is evidenced by the fact that most of the English are still essentially "Celtic" in molecular terms, despite speaking a West Germanic language with heavy admixtures of Norman French.
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Maybe, but I recall it was Ben Carson who had a bit of trouble separating The Onion from reality.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
As opposed to the pro-Hillary mainstream media who aren't even getting paid for their work? How can you possibly say objective when the entire MSM is united under Hillary? They submit their stories for vetting before publication, for fuck's sake! It's like a banana republic or China!!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
They probably are descended in part from the ancient Macedonians. As is practically everyone else in Europe.
It's silly to stake a genetic claim to the heritage of a people from 2300 years ago -- if you are European. Europe had a little thing called the Migration Age which shuffled the entire continent's genetic deck. That's why you see a haplotype that's believed to have originated around the Volga River in a broad swath from the Caucuses through Greece, Southern Italy and Spain, with pockets in all kinds of odd places like Lapland. You find "Norse" DNA in the Near East too -- thanks to the crusades.
All those 19th Century eugenic theories were based on philological reconstructions; they assumed that common language and stories meant common ancestry; ethnicity turns out to have very little to do with genetics. It's a stupid argument anyway; by that standard I'm English, even though my ancestors were from China. Or contrariwise, because my ancestors were Chinese I somehow "own" Shakespeare less than some British soccer hooligan who flunked his O levels.
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No, the point is, there is nothing legitimate about these websites, so there is absolutely no reason to allow anything on my network to connect to them at anytime, whether accidental or otherwise
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Do they have a department of redundancy department like the United Kingdom of the UK does?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Most of the web works this way nowadays. Just have a look at sites like buzzfeed. 20 Facts about fake sites you didn't know, no. 13 is a fake itself!
There is no interest in the content, there is interest in users clicking ads. That's why the basically fuck with users, deploy malw^W anti-adblock scripts, spy on the user and so on instead of just providing good content.
modern greek have nothing to do with the old greek - they are basically descendants of slavs and turks. they don't even speak proper greek nowadays.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Has anyone ever heard of these sites before? The real news is all on /r/wikileaks.
Sounds like they make clickbait sites they want people to share and make money off the ad revenue. There's no actual indication that people take these any more seriously than the other clickbait, so it doesn't surprise me that Buzzfeed doesn't like competition.
People used to be able to go to Reddit, but /r/politics now bans anyone who mentions their paid "Correct The Record" campaigns, so .... yeah.
Trump fans are gullible and stupid. Bernie supporters not so much.
Sad and pathetic
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Let me quote from the front page story of one of those sites:
"Flight logs revealed that, on at least 26 separate occasions, Bill Clinton accompanied sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on his Boeing 747, which Epstein had nicknamed the “Lolita Express.” He allegedly had a team of traffickers who procured girls as young as 12 for him and his fellow passengers on their way to “Orgy Island,” a 72-acre island called Little St. James.The plane “was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls” according to Fox News. There were eleven separate occasions where Bill Clinton was reported to have boarded Epstein’s plane, but flight logs show the number is more than double that; 26 separate occasions between 2001 and 2003."
There is no link to the Fox News story, or other source.
This does not sound like a very reputable news source.
Effect, meet cause.
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You need other sources? Just use Google. It is well known that both Bill and even Hillary had many trips on the Lolita Express.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Depending on the cycle one side or the other will be the most outraged. They're monetizing outrage and this cycle it happens to be Trumps turn. Eight years ago I seem to remember there was plenty of anti-bush outrage to be mined. It probably helps that Trump's approach is to play on the outrage, but it seems there is a never ending supply to tap into from both ends of the spectrum.
Nullius in verba
I want to know how such a retarded fucking post such as yours gets modded informative? Is there someone out there dumber than you with mod points?
Your post is nothing but the same stupid ignorant shit spewed by fox news opinionists et al.
There is NO liberal media and NO "pro-Hillary mainstream media" you ignorant fucktard! There is a somewhat "mainstream" news media system that strives to be as informative as they can and still manage ratings, and then you have the real "fake" news propaganda outlets such as Fox News Corp that spin and twist, edit and add, delete and change current events into their own version of news they then present mixed with carefully crafted opinion by professional dicklickers like Bill OReally? and Spin Hannity.
If you are a marker of just how ill informed and ignorant the average american is, God help us all. We are all SO fucked.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
You don't see the bias because you agree with it. It definitely exists. The entire MSM is on board with Hillary.
Maybe it's time for you to leave America? It seems you're really not a good fit with us. We want to rule ourselves, while you want us to be ruled by heartless oligarchs. I suggest France, that's always a popular destination. Or Venezeula, you can go and see what real leftism is like when it gets power and refuses to give up. Just bring a suitcase of antibiotics when you go, we wouldn't want you to lose a leg because you got a scratch.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!