Recently I wrote about Macedonia’s ‘American’ sites and previously on a number of hoaxes, including the Ulsterman Report.
Many people don’t appreciate the seriousness of these hoaxes.
Sure, Ulsterman’s Whitehouse Insider came to fruition after Barack Obama had been elected. Those who read it were anti-Obama from morning, and considering everything, pretty stupid to believe it. But thousands, hundreds of thousands of readers believed that what was being posted was true.
The recent revelation that much of the Anti-Clinton / Pro-Trump articles which blanketed Facebook were invented in Macedonia has just come to light.
Youths in Macedonia, looking for a way to make money, probably took a glimpse of the Ulsterman Report and thought…’Hey! Why Not!” People are stupid. If they don’t like someone they will believe anything bad about them. If they have given their brain over to another, they will accept anything positive about him/her.
Creating fake sites with American sounding names, they would grab images and paragraphs from Right Wing American sites, cut and past, post, then, creating a site on Facebook, they would post these items, get hundreds and thousands of members who liked, clicked and ran up their Ad sense accounts.
These fake sites got poor Facebook labeled Fakebook, because after the election of Trump, the revelation that so many of these stories were absolute fabrications.
How gullible have people become?
Just read and accept and do no other examination?
Obviously, the door is wide open for any kind of hoax. The kids in Macedonia did it for the money. To an American 1c is 1c, to someone in Macedonia, that’s a $1.00 in their denars.
If an American makes $500 from a site, that is $50,000 dinars for the kid in Macedonia, so clearly, creating a site, getting hits and shares and links is an earning opportunity on par with drug smuggling without the risks.
The question is; how did these sites effect the American election? Were people persuaded to vote for Trump by what they read on a Macedonian site, written by someone who made it up as he went along?
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Fake news is nothing new. Neither are hoaxes. However, the Internet makes these kinds of reports much easier to circulate. Did they influence the election results? Seriously? I seriously doubt it!!
I know many people think the American voters are stupid. But I don't share their point of view. When it comes to choosing our presidents as you can tell by this last election and any of the elections before TRUMP vs CLINTON … people vote according to matters of their heart, i.e. what's important to them.
(Although, with this last election, I sometimes wonder if the decision may have been made by a flip of the coin. Heads = Hillary. Tails = Trump. Sorry. We didn't have really great choices! But those were the two who hung in there all the way!)
Sure! A bogus news report may make people stop and think … Hmmm? True or false? But in the end, when that lever is pulled to cast a vote … they're thinking of whether or not the candidate they vote for is going to make life better for them.
It takes a lot more than a fake news report for a person to not be able to recognize what their own “priorities” are.
For the record, folks who call Facebook Fakebook are probably similar to the same people who called our Central Intelligence Agency, the Central Stupidity Agency. Eh! It sounds catchy!
The fact is, that kids in Macedonia created a lot of propaganda and like the Ulsterman Report, could not have stood up to any scrutiny, but few scrutinised.
The Internet has made this kind of activity more common and more people are taken in.
Take particular 'heath products' which have been completely exposed. Yet, on the Internet, you can find site after site selling these 'health products'.
Scams are schemes to con you out of your money. They can arrive by post, phone call, text message or email, or from someone coming to your home.
It’s very distressing to be caught out by a scam. But it’s important to report it to try and stop the scammer striking again
This page tells you what you can do if you’ve been a victim of a scam and who you can report it to.
f you've lost money because of a scam report it to Action Fraud, the national fraud reporting centre.
You can report the scam through online or by phone.
You'll need to provide as much information as possible, for example any names or other information about the scammer, dates and details about how the money has been lost or how you were threatened.
If you’ve been threatened with physical violence on your doorstep, you can report this to the police by calling 101.
The Hoaxes, whether Ulsterman or the Macedonians, gathered coined from Adsense. It's Google who paid. The point with these Fake News sites is that Ulsterman never really interfered with the American re-election of Obama. The Macedonians might have gotten some votes for Trump.
Oh!!If Hillary had won these the Macedonian propaganda would not have been there...What we are thinking about u.s voters is that they not only think in terms of their National but the Relationship of their country with the neighboring countries and other nations of the world.
I have been campaigning for Mr. Donald as I have seen something conspicuous in his statements and remarks which are very safe for India as well as to the other Nations of the world. It is not only the U.S citizen who participated and voted in the U.S elections the Nations of the world have set for themselves some benefits, losses, advantages, and disadvantages in taking a side
How can the U.S voters go and vote for Clinton who was time and again pleading guilty of her emails scandal whenever it was made a point of attack.
The facebook propaganda can not be a Macedonian propaganda and even then the websites so created therein might have earned something through Adsense account, not from the treasury of their own Nations.
We can not even say that the reports and website are scams. That phase has gone and ended with a positive result in favor of Mr. Donald.
Let us view this with a positive perspective.
You don't realise yet, that your Mr. Donald thinks you are an inferior breed. Wait. He'll be deporting your people too. Right now, ICE is on the road in Jamaican communities, in Cuban communities, and it will reach Indian communities. Mr. Donald wants America to be White again. If you are not a white Christian he is NOT for you.
But as we say in Jamaica; "If you don't hear, you'll feel"