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- Nov 8, 2018
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_godfather_of_fake_news
This guy was making $$$$ from adsense on a website spreading fake news through facebook
"The Americans loved our stories and we make money from them,” one faker told the BBC. “Who cares if they are true or false?”
He began to write fabricated tales that looked like real news headlines. Streams of consciousness flowed from his head to the keyboard.
When he saw the results online, the hundreds and thousands of likes and shares his posts were getting, he felt validated. Far more people were interested in fake news than Blair’s opinions or true stories.
Not everyone was convinced.
“You’re wasting all this time,” his wife told him. “It will never amount to anything.”
But once his fake news started to get clicks, he was able to use Google’s advertising platform to convert page views into money. In 2014, he quit his day job.
“Once writing became lucrative enough to not destroy my body in construction any more,” he says with a laugh, “that’s when it became time to stay at home with the kids and do this.” "
This guy was making $$$$ from adsense on a website spreading fake news through facebook
"The Americans loved our stories and we make money from them,” one faker told the BBC. “Who cares if they are true or false?”
He began to write fabricated tales that looked like real news headlines. Streams of consciousness flowed from his head to the keyboard.
When he saw the results online, the hundreds and thousands of likes and shares his posts were getting, he felt validated. Far more people were interested in fake news than Blair’s opinions or true stories.
Not everyone was convinced.
“You’re wasting all this time,” his wife told him. “It will never amount to anything.”
But once his fake news started to get clicks, he was able to use Google’s advertising platform to convert page views into money. In 2014, he quit his day job.
“Once writing became lucrative enough to not destroy my body in construction any more,” he says with a laugh, “that’s when it became time to stay at home with the kids and do this.” "
