It depends on how you look at it.
If you like scams and hoaxes and seeing other people made fools of, then you’ll love the Macedonian shuffle.
There’s a small town called Veles in Macedonia which has created more than 140 fake sites with American sounding names.
For the past year, these sites have been churning out fake news, Pro-Trump fake news, and posting the links on Facebook.
Those who support Trump hungrily would click, and like, and share, and the creators of these sites would be counting their coin, because, one Macedonian dollar is .017 to the US… meaning, that like Jamaica, $1.00 U.S. is more than $100 in our money.
To make $100 U.S. a month might not seem a lot to an American, but that is over $10,000.00 Macedonian dener.
Sites with names like WorldPoliticus.com, TrumpVision365.com, USConservativeToday.com, DonaldTrumpNews.co, and USADailyPolitics are all born and grown in Macedonia.
Just like the Whitehouse Insider, the writers of these sites have no connection at all with America or Donald Trump, they invent. They invent stories, and they know how to use Ad Sense and how to get their items to go viral on Facebook.
Most of the sites are created and run by young people who get more than one kick out of fooling Americans.
Firstly, there’s the Pride angle. Who would have thought that kids in Macedonia would be so clever and so able to manipulate the Internet? Who would have thought they’d be able to create sites, open Facebook pages, link into Ad Sense, and with a few bits and pieces grabbed from Fox News be able to invent stories that Americans would swallow them whole? I mean, Macedonia? Where’s That?
Secondly, there’s the money side, where what they take in a month is enough to finance a life style they never could have dreamed of. And, it’s legal. They aren’t selling drugs, they are trafficking their neighbours, they are just inventing stories which elevate Donald Trump which are believed by the same double digits who believed every word of the Ulsterman Report.
As an extra gift, Donald Trump won, so they can continue to create stories about him, on their websites, plaster them all over Fa(k)ce Book, get hundreds of thousands of readers.
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Fake news work all over the world just make human beings minds negative from all respects and it is launched from the opposite part with a solid plan. they want to draw in American visitors through Facebook and make money off of sales of display ads on their bootleg politics sites. “In Macedonia the economy is very weak and teenagers are not allowed to work, so we need to find creative ways to make some money,
The business model is not particularly different from any mainstream publisher’s social-media strategy in an era where more people look at Facebook than all news outlets combined: Build a Facebook page, gather a large following, and try to draw that audience off of Facebook and onto your site, where you’re serving the ads off of which you draw revenue. If you’re a mainstream publisher,
it’s a frustrating model, since the margins are extremely thin — the aggregate cost of enticing a given reader is, at best, only slightly less than the ad revenue they generate, and is often more.
This Facebook-news arbitrage scheme is booming this election season, thanks to this confluence of Facebook (and its ability to drive an audience), Google (and its ability to seamlessly monetize any website), and this particular election (and its ability to fill people with passionate, spitting rage).
Thanks to our new media landscape, hoaxes, exaggerations, and outright lies aren’t just able to propagate but are actually incentivized. And it’s not clear that there’s an easy way to fix it.
The fact no one wants to confront is that people Want to believe the Fake Stories. An average mind, unaffected by bias would question.