This link has been bookmarked by 172 people . It was first bookmarked on 23 Nov 2016, by Donald Miller.
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10 Aug 17
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Commonly that's called scraping or crawling websites," he says.
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Jansen is kind of like an archaeologist. He says that nothing you do on the Web disappears — it just gets buried — like a fossil. But if you do some digging you'll find those fossils and learn a lot of history.
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large prominent American flag.
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What that turned into was a state representative in the House in Colorado proposing actual legislation to prevent people from using their food stamps to buy marijuana based on something that had just never happened,"
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but they just never take the bait.
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My educational background is in political science. I've always enjoyed the ideas of propaganda and misinformation. Then I coupled that with an interest in what makes things go viral. So that led me to finding those groups and ultimately to finding contributors. But it was just something I had an interest in that I wanted to pursue.
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Everything about it was fictional. The town, the people, the sheriff, the FBI guy. Then, we had our social media guys kind of go out and do a little dropping it throughout Trump groups and Trump forums and boy it spread like wildfire.
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I still enjoy the game
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10 Jun 17
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"The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction," Coler says.
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And as the stories spread, Coler makes money from the ads on his websites. He wouldn't give exact figures, but he says stories about other fake-news proprietors making between $10,000 and $30,000 a month apply to him. Coler fits into a pattern of other faux news sites that make good money, especially by targeting Trump supporters.
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They know now that fake news sells and they will only be in it for the money.
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This is a right-wing issue. Sarah Palin's famous blasting of the lamestream media is kind of record and testament to the rise of these kinds of people.
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08 Jun 17
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06 Jun 17JoAnn Butts
This is one title from the hitlist from a search of NPR for fake news. It's particularly interesting.
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The story is completely false, but it was shared on Facebook over half a million times.
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LetTexasSecede.
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white nationalist alt-right
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turned into was a state representative in the House in Colorado proposing actual legislation to prevent people from using their food stamps to buy marijuana based on something that had just never happened,
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31 Jan 17
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The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction
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the number of just fake accounts on Facebook exploded during the Trump election
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Disinfomedia, owns many faux news sites — he won't say how many. But he says his is one of the biggest fake-news businesses out there
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stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories
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as the stories spread, Coler makes money from the ads on his websites
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stories about other fake-news proprietors making between $10,000 and $30,000 a month apply to him
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Coler insists this is not about money. It's about showing how easily fake news spreads
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He doesn't think fake news swayed the election
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They know now that fake news sells and they will only be in it for the money.
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We've tried to do similar things to liberals. It just has never worked, it never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out.
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The idea was to make the sites look as legit as possible so the home page is going to be local news and local forecast, local sports, some obituaries and things of that nature, and then the actual fake news stories were going to be buried off the home page.
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I kind of applaud Google for their steps, although I think what they're doing is kind of random. They don't really have a process in place for identifying these things.
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What can be done about fake news?
Some of this has to fall on the readers themselves. The consumers of content have to be better at identifying this stuff. We have a whole nation of media-illiterate people. Really, there needs to be something done.
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During the run-up to the presidential election, fake news really took off. "It was just anybody with a blog can get on there and find a big, huge Facebook group of kind of rabid Trump supporters just waiting to eat up this red meat that they're about to get served," Coler says.
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He says stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories.
"The people wanted to hear this," he says. "So all it took was to write that story. Everything about it was fictional: the town, the people, the sheriff, the FBI guy. And then ... our social media guys kind of go out and do a little dropping it throughout Trump groups and Trump forums and boy it spread like wildfire."
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I identified a problem with the news that they were spreading and created Disinfomedia as a response to that. The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly false or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction.
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National Report has been my bread and butter,
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What can be done about fake news?
Some of this has to fall on the readers themselves. The consumers of content have to be better at identifying this stuff. We have a whole nation of media-illiterate people. Really, there needs to be something done.
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"The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction," Coler says.
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"The people wanted to hear this," he says. "So all it took was to write that story.
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However, Coler insists this is not about money. It's about showing how easily fake news spreads. And fake news spread wide and far before the election. When I pointed out to Coler that the money gave him a lot of incentive to keep doing it regardless of the impact, he admitted that was "correct."
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My educational background is in political science. I've always enjoyed the ideas of propaganda and misinformation. Then I coupled that with an interest in what makes things go viral. So that led me to finding those groups and ultimately to finding contributors. But it was just something I had an interest in that I wanted to pursue.
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The post-fact era is what I would refer to it as.
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Trump really got into the red meat. He knew who his base was. He knew how to feed them a constant diet of this red meat.
We've tried to do similar things to liberals. It just has never worked, it never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out.
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Some of these people that we ... bait is probably the right word — are often — let's call them the deplorables, right? They're not the safest crowd. Some of them I would consider domestic terrorists. So they're just not people that I want to be knocking on my door.
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Really, the financial part of it isn't the only motivator for me. I do enjoy making a mess of the people that share the content that comes out of our site. It's not just the financial incentive for me. I still enjoy the game I guess.
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We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned
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01 Dec 16Kattie Capozza
I've been following this whole investigation of fake vs. legitimate news very closely. It's a dangerous tool to either feed existing biases and fears or to create new ones. This is just a bit of insight into the business and why of individuals who create fake news.
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30 Nov 16
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Denverguardian.com even had the local weather. But it had only one news story — the fake one.
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Denverguardian.com.
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LetTexasSecede.
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"It caused an explosion in the number of sites. I mean, my gosh, the number of just fake accounts on Facebook exploded during the Trump election."
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And as the stories spread, Coler makes money from the ads on his websites. He wouldn't give exact figures, but he says stories about other fake-news proprietors making between $10,000 and $30,000 a month apply to him.
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However, Coler insists this is not about money. It's about showing how easily fake news spreads.
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Coler, a registered Democrat, says he has no regrets about his fake news empire. He doesn't think fake news swayed the election.
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She brought in a lot of baggage."
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And he thinks it will only get harder to tell their websites from real news sites. They know now that fake news sells and they will only be in it for the money.
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We've tried to do similar things to liberals. It just has never worked, it never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out.
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If you went to National Report today, it's specifically satire.
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They don't really have a process in place for identifying these things.
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29 Nov 16
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Tania Sheko
A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide. via Pocket
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A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide." The story is completely false, but it was shared on Facebook over half a million times.
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Jansen started by looking at the site's history. "Commonly that's called scraping or crawling websites," he says.
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Jansen is kind of like an archaeologist. He says that nothing you do on the Web disappears — it just gets buried — like a fossil. But if you do some digging you'll find those fossils and learn a lot of history.
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Coler
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He says he got into fake news around 2013 to highlight the extremism of the white nationalist alt-right.
"The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction," Coler says.
He was amazed at how quickly fake news could spread and how easily people believe it. He wrote one fake story for NationalReport.net about how customers in Colorado marijuana shops were using food stamps to buy pot.
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"What that turned into was a state representative in the House in Colorado proposing actual legislation to prevent people from using their food stamps to buy marijuana based on something that had just never happened," Coler says.
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I mean, my gosh, the number of just fake accounts on Facebook exploded during the Trump election."
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Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals — but they just never take the bait.
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Coler's company, Disinfomedia, owns many faux news sites — he won't say how many.
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He says stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories.
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"So all it took was to write that story. Everything about it was fictional: the town, the people, the sheriff, the FBI guy. And then ... our social media guys kind of go out and do a little dropping it throughout Trump groups and Trump forums and boy it spread like wildfire."
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"The people wanted to hear this," he says.
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Coler fits into a pattern of other faux news sites that make good money, especially by targeting Trump supporters.
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However, Coler insists this is not about money. It's about showing how easily fake news spreads. And fake news spread wide and far before the election. When I pointed out to Coler that the money gave him a lot of incentive to keep doing it regardless of the impact, he admitted that was "correct."
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Coler, a registered Democrat, says he has no regrets about his fake news empire. He doesn't think fake news swayed the election.
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"There are literally hundreds of ad networks," he says. "Early last week, my inbox was just filled every day with people because they knew that Google was cracking down — hundreds of people wanting to work with my sites."
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he thinks it will only get harder to tell their websites from real news sites. They know now that fake news sells and they will only be in it for the money.
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Eric Langhorst
People. PLEASE read this. And make sure to share it with your friends, especially conservative ones, who eagerly s… https://t.co/SwHtl8AAzD
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25 Nov 16
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Well, this isn't just a Trump-supporter problem. This is a right-wing issue. Sarah Palin's famous blasting of the lamestream media is kind of record and testament to the rise of these kinds of people. The post-fact era is what I would refer to it as. This isn't something that started with Trump. This is something that's been in the works for a while. His whole campaign was this thing of discrediting mainstream media sources, which is one of those dog whistles to his supporters. When we were coming up with headlines it's always kind of about the red meat. Trump really got into the red meat. He knew who his base was. He knew how to feed them a constant diet of this red meat.
We've tried to do similar things to liberals. It just has never worked, it never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out.
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William Hart
A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide. via Pocket
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24 Nov 16Muzaffaruddin Alvi
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Austin Wang shared Anh Quoc Le's post.
1 hr · Durham, NC, United States ·
Mind blown.....
最近有人調查在美國總統大選泛濫的激進派假新聞網站,結果其中一個宣傳有調查希拉蕊的FBI幹員死掉的假新聞網站,營運的是一個民主黨、有兩個小孩的爸爸,他營運網站可以靠流量賺錢(每月10000鎂),還不認為這些網站影響選舉結果,而且他的目的只是想證明假新聞多容易傳播。
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"Coler is a soft-spoken 40-year-old with a wife and two kids. "
"Coler, a registered Democrat, says he has no regrets about his fake news empire."
"And as the stories spread, Coler makes money from the ads on his websites. ...the stories about other fake-news proprietors making between $10,000 and $30,000 a month apply to him."
Anh Quoc Le
1 hr ·
Guy who created fake news / lies about dead FBI investigator in Hillary's case is a registered Democrat. He got into this fake news business to, according to him, "infiltrate the alt-right bubble with fake news with the intention of denouncing them later on." He does make money from ads.
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Tom McHale
"Coler is a soft-spoken 40-year-old with a wife and two kids. He says he got into fake news around 2013 to highlight the extremism of the white nationalist alt-right.
"The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction," Coler says.
He was amazed at how quickly fake news could spread and how easily people believe it. He wrote one fake story for NationalReport.net about how customers in Colorado marijuana shops were using food stamps to buy pot.
"What that turned into was a state representative in the House in Colorado proposing actual legislation to prevent people from using their food stamps to buy marijuana based on something that had just never happened," Coler says." -
Mela Eckenfels
WOW. NPR tracked down guy behind fake election news sites, he says he started it to discredit alt-right! https://t.co/So2RCg6PKX
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Colby Vorland
RT @omosanzalette: WOW. NPR tracked down guy behind fake election news sites, he says he started it to discredit alt-right! https://t.co/S…
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