https://www.dailykos.com/news/ParisWade News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 24 Feb 2020 03:32:45 +0000 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 03:32:45 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/7/18/1781690/-American-Conservatives-were-behind-Macedonian-Fake-News-Factories <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <blockquote> <p>A week before Election Day in 2016, BuzzFeed News <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo?utm_term=.nmLP6bmpW#.hcRNEk6Ox">revealed</a> that young men and teens in Veles were running over a hundred websites that pumped out often false viral stories that supported Donald Trump.</p> <p>Media outlets from around the world descended upon Veles to tell the story of how the so-called fake news teens — many of whom had a shaky understanding of English — made large sums of money from digital ads shown next to their misleading stories about US politics.</p> <p>But after reviewing social media posts, government records, domain registry information, and archived versions of fake news sites, as well as interviewing key players, BuzzFeed News, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and the Investigative Reporting Lab Macedonia can now reveal that Veles’ political news industry was not started spontaneously by apolitical teens.</p> <p>Rather, it was launched by a well-known Macedonian media attorney, Trajche Arsov — who worked closely with two <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-opportunity-comes-in-clicks-and-bucks/2016/11/20/d58d036c-adbf-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html" target="_blank" title="">high-profile</a> American partners for at least six months during a period that overlapped with Election Day.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/american-conservatives-fake-news-macedonia-paris-wade-libert" target="_blank" title="">www.buzzfeednews.com/…</a>  (BuzzFeed has spun off a standalone News site)</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>One of those Americans is Paris Wade, running for a State Assembly seat from NV-41.  Another currently works for Gateway Pundit.</p> rss@dailykos.com (MTmofo) Conservatives FakeNews Macedonia Nevada ParisWade Recommended TrajcheArsov _1781690 Wed, 18 Jul 2018 19:25:42 +0000