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"We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned"
« on: November 28, 2016, 05:47:19 PM »
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs

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The sites include NationalReport.net, USAToday.com.co, WashingtonPost.com.co. All the addresses linked to a single rented server inside Amazon Web Services. That meant they were all very likely owned by the same company. Jansen found an email address on one of those sites and was able to link that address to a name: Jestin Coler.

Online, Coler was listed as the founder and CEO of a company called Disinfomedia. Coler's LinkedIn profile said he once sold magazine subscriptions, worked as a database administrator and as a freelance writer for among others, International Yachtsman magazine. And, using his name, we found a home address.

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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.

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.

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Coler's company, 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, which makes him a sort of godfather of the industry.

At any given time, Coler says, he has between 20 and 25 writers. And it was one of them who wrote the story in the "Denver Guardian" that an FBI agent who leaked Clinton emails was killed. Coler says that over 10 days the site got 1.6 million views. 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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Re: "We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned"
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2016, 07:55:11 PM »
Inside a Fake News Sausage Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’ (nytimes.com)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/europe/fake-news-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-georgia.html
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Re: "We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned"
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2016, 08:06:42 PM »
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You guys know I'm a news junkie. Trouble is, Gnews & reddit don't give me much of a buzz anymore. To get a good fix, I have to go into bad neighborhoods.  I wrote a script in TM to drill through one very active-but-toxic aggregator.  Here's the kludge-y part that nukes fake news. Some are my own finds, btw, not mentioned by media stories.

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Re: "We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned"
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2017, 12:37:50 PM »
[update. Merged Fake News Almanac http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2017/apr/20/politifacts-guide-fake-news-websites-and-what-they/ ]

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