03 Dec 16 08:52, I wrote to you:   
      
    ml> as individuals, we're not really all that important... however, as a   
   group,   
    ml> we are very important... just look at what those few teenagers from veles,   
    ml> macedonia did...   
      
    ml> [quote]   
    ml> Veles made international news in 2016 when it was revealed that a group of   
    ml> teenagers in the town were controlling over 100 websites producing fake   
    ml> news articles in support of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump,   
   which   
    ml> were heavily publicised on the social media site Facebook, and may have   
    ml> influenced the result of the election. [/quote]   
      
   here's a bit more followup on the above...   
      
   https://apnews.com/12fc49ad3b694f35b5c4a08513ec8d33   
      
   [quote]   
   "The fake news is the good news," the 18-year-old said, pointing to a graph   
   showing his audience figures, which reached into the hundreds of thousands, a   
   bling watch clasped firmly around his wrist. "A fake news article is way more   
   opened than any other."   
      
   [...]   
      
   He showed the AP how he ripped much of his material off The Political Insider,   
   a right-wing news site that produces a steady drumbeat of pro-Donald Trump   
   pieces. He then flipped over to Google Analytics, an audience tracking tool,   
   to show that he'd managed to gather more than 685,000 page views a week.   
      
   The teen said his monthly revenue was in the four figures, a considerable sum   
   in a country where the average monthly pay is 360 euros ($383). As he   
   navigated his site's statistics, he dropped nuggets of journalism advice.   
   [/quote]   
      
   it is all about the ad revenue... just getting the ads shown pulls in the   
   $$$...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it   
   wrong...   
   ... Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.   
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