Friday, February 2, 2018

The Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News





2017 election made the term "Fake News" outstanding than it ever was, and it also made a lot of teenagers in Veles rich and famous. According to the News Report, "In the final weeks of the US presidential election, Veles attained a weird infamy in the most powerful nation on earth." There were more than one Fake News Factories were discovered in Veles, and they are all managed by teenagers who have dropped school for their big money-making business.  As of researcher reports "stories in The Guardian and on BuzzFeed revealed that the Macedonian town of 55,000 was the registered home of at least 100 pro-Trump websites, many of them filled with sensationalist, utterly fake news". [ 1 image, 2 links, 2 quotations, 118 words]

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