Who was man who brought fire and death over Las Vegas last Monday? A linker? An Islamist? Least. One must now "control narrative", it was said after assassination in notorious Troll forum 4chan. It's not even so fine irony, that those who are always against supposedly system-controlled mainstream media and shouting fake news, now freely associate news to control "mainstream", is self-proclaimed Spin doctors probably escaped.

Or she didn't care, after all y had success. Her text, which called a false name, a false person and a false motive, ended up in first place in Google's news system.

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The search engine was not alone with mistake: in Facebook security check that network unlocked after recent terrorist attack for its users, texts were found by Alt-right activists, and also on official news page of YouTube were Still until end of week videos full of conspiracy ories sorted at forefront. Google and Facebook had "abandoned" people, n wrote magazine Atlantic. Your filters stopped working.

With well-designed messages you can earn good money

This criticism is justified, but it is too short. The algorithms may forgive or perhaps favor counterfeit articles, but y are still people who exploit se loopholes. Some out of political motivation, ors for purely economic interest.

We had arrived in "age of cheap information from overseas", it was said last week on Buzzfeed. Just as for a long time clos and or consumer products are cheap and in mostly inferior quality in countries with low labor costs are produced, nowadays it is information industry. The fact that news portal denounces this development, which has risen to multi-million media brand with its lapping-produced questionnaires and simple lifestyle lists, does not lack a certain irony, but makes maladministration No less true.

Last year, Macedonian small town of Veles came to doubtful glory, because from re several dozen pro-Trump Facebook sites are operated with fabulously high clickthrough rates. In some cases, article access numbers produced by "established" sites such as Fox or Breitbart are in shadows. It has long been possible to attend courses in which you can learn how best to lure gullible internet users with cheap texts. But also in Georgia, Croatia, Pakistan, India and Philippines, mass production of fake news has become veritable business model.

The more controversial and emotional, more viral spread

It is no longer only political zero news that has long since been disseminated. Wher it's health issues, nature conservation, religion or sport-everything that seems to be almost controversial is suitable as a product of click Factories. The crowd does it. Websites with pseudo-reputable, generic names such as "MedicalHealthRecords.us", "HealthTimes.info" or "GeneralHealthcare.co" are registered in bulk. Their content is written down to one half and or half invented freely. Lautschreierische headlines, associated with about as much information content as shredded blotting paper, has become a winning combination.

If you will, and if you look at matter from a global, economic point of view, this development is even a success story. Where se people used to be a level lower in digital recovery chain, as a watchdog of questionable content on Facebook or YouTube, y are now acting as ir producers.

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