This fake-news writer says he makes over $10,000 per month, and thinks he helped Donald Trump.

[PurpleOwl]

This fake-news writer says he makes over $10,000 per month, and thinks he helped get Donald Trump elected
One of the original kings of fake news thinks he might have helped get Trump elected, and he’s not happy about it.
38-year-old Paul Horner, who runs a network of viral fake-news site (he calls them satire), has been making a living off the practice for years. And he’s big. He says he makes $10,000 per month from Google’s AdSense alone, the source of most of his revenue.
But Horner says that with the rise of Trump, fake news has reached a whole new level.
“It’s real scary,” he told The Washington Post. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
“My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time,” Horner continued. “I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they will post everything, believe anything.(True) His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist.” (I remember USMB posters quoting his article and biting on the Craigslist ad. laugh.
This fake-news writer says he makes over $10,000 per month, and thinks he helped get Donald Trump elected

Republicans are too stupid to know the difference between fake news and real news

 

[Pogo]

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

And indeed, the fake news writer:

"I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! "​

--- sure didn't go broke, did he?
Neither did Rump, for once.

It's a study in Echobubble self-delusion. We kept telling them it was false, and they kept trotting right back to the same well, somehow expecting different results.

Seems the unwashed are far more interested in mythology that feeds their pre-existing biases, and far less interested in whether it's in any way connected to actual reality.

I keep saying this board needs a resident psychiatrist. Clearly I misunderestimated the scope of that need.

 

[PurpleOwl]

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Why? I mean — why would you even write that?

"Just ’cause his supporters were under the belief that people were getting paid to protest at their rallies, and that’s just insane. I’ve gone to Trump protests — trust me, no one needs to get paid to protest Trump. I just wanted to make fun of that insane belief, but it took off. They actually believed it.

I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now he’s in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels [bad]." --- Noseboook Fake News Writer: I think Rump is In the White House Because of Me​

this was posted here as real news atleast a dozen times yesterday lol

Make $1,500 per week per Craigslist

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

What else do we expect when significant numbers of people got their news from John Stewart?

Jon (not John) Stewart did satire. Nobody was ever stupid enough to take off with some ridiculous Stewart satire and think it was actual news.

On the other hand ---- just check the topics brought up on these very pages over the last year. Count up how many were written or inspired by Paul Horner and Donald Rump, and the suckers actually believed it..

Even the Amish thing.
Oh yeah that was a real thread.

Dumbasses. "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

The Amish one was too funny!

Three Million Amish will vote for Trump and yet less than a million Amish in America and the ones that believed that story did not even look up how many Amish lived here in the States.

That was priceless.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Thanks for making a thread on this. I laid this out in another thread but it was in the FZ, which in the bizarro world of USMB somehow "doesn't count"

An article in New York Magazine last week, bluntly titled, “Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook,” made the case that, “the most obvious way in which Facebook enabled a Trump victory has been its inability (or refusal) to address the problem of hoax or fake news.”

An investigation by BuzzFeed News published less than a week prior to the election traced about 100 political “news” sites trafficking in fake stories — most of them extremely pro-Trump — to a single small town in the Balkan state of Macedonia, where groups of college students and teenagers discovered they could rake in big bucks by generating phony “news” stories favorable to Trump or damaging to Hillary Clinton, and sharing them on Facebook where they would quickly go viral. <<

Like, such as.....

• "Yoko had an affair with Hillary".....
• "Hillary has Parkinson's" (dementia, cancer, Globner's Disease, the hearbreak of psoriasis, etc etc etc)
  
• "Bill Clinton's illegitimate black son" .... (that Bill Clinton wasn't running for office seems not to have occurred to the Ministry of Disinformation)
• "Get those fucking retards out of here..."
• The tweet posted in post 2 and myriad others like it...

---- Etc etc ad infinitum; the complete list makes a cute trivia quiz and can be accessed by a look at the topics created in the Politics forum. It's as if the two sides of the collective brain have been irrevocably split and we just run on what feels good rather than on what actual facts are.

It's well known that that practice leads to ebola..

Source article for above quote: Did Nosebook win election for Rump?

Sure did. Because Nosebook knows as well as Rump does that you can sell a deep freezer to an Eskimo if you exploit that emotional Achilles heal, and that there's enough unwashed masses born every minute to make a profit from it.

>> What do the Amish lobby, gay wedding vans and the ban of the national anthem have in common? For starters, they’re all make-believe — and invented by the same man.

Paul Horner, the 38-year-old impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire, has made his living off viral news hoaxes for several years. He has twice convinced the Internet that he’s British graffiti artist Banksy; he also published the very viral, very fake news of a Yelp vs. “South Park” lawsuit last year.

But in recent months, Horner has found the fake-news ecosystem growing more crowded, more political and vastly more influential: In March, Donald Trump’s son Eric and his then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, even tweeted links to one of Horner’s faux-articles. His stories have also appeared as news on Google.

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"Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because they’d already accepted it. It’s real scary. I’ve never seen anything like it

... My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist."
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Why? I mean — why would you even write that?

"Just ’cause his supporters were under the belief that people were getting paid to protest at their rallies, and that’s just insane. I’ve gone to Trump protests — trust me, no one needs to get paid to protest Trump. I just wanted to make fun of that insane belief, but it took off. They actually believed it.

I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now he’s in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels [bad]." --- Noseboook Fake News Writer: I think Rump is In the White House Because of Me​

Actually I remember that "three million Amish" story. Somebody here actually bought it and ran it as a thread here. One a them thar Useful Idiots


--- matter of fact I even earned me a "STFU" for that post, which is the best confirmation I could ask that I'm on the right track.

STFU![/QUOTE]


We have an entire country of useful idiots who knew trump was lying every single day, know he is still lying every single day, knows he will screw them over to make a buck. Same useful idiots who love Pooting and are still posting the same endless lies here on this board.

Are they stupid enough to fall for it again?

YEP.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

And indeed, the fake news writer:

"I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! "​

--- sure didn't go broke, did he?
Neither did Rump, for once.

It's a study in Echobubble self-delusion. We kept telling them it was false, and they kept trotting right back to the same well, somehow expecting different results.

Seems the unwashed are far more interested in mythology that feeds their pre-existing biases, and far less interested in whether it's in any way connected to actual reality.

I keep saying this board needs a resident psychiatrist. Clearly I misunderestimated the scope of that need.

And DAY-UM -- No matter how many times the facts are presented to them, they just keep on keeping on.

As recently as last night, I posted FACTS and had RWNJs criticize the source. Those very same NJs post Alex Jones, Savage, Allen West etc as credible sources.

Its not for nothing that trump said he likes uneducated voters. And, not an accident that the GOP/Repubs don't want Americans to learn "critical thinking" or even get a basic college education.

 

[OldLady]

I had the misfortune of stumbling on Tucker Carlson's new show last night while he was throwing a tantie DEFENDING the fake news sites that Google is discouraging. Fox needs to fire him. He is on a supposedly bonafide news network and he is seriously spouting that it is a First Amendment right to publish FAKE news.
Guess part of his problem was, Breitbart was on the list. Although he only mentioned that in passing. This is becoming frightening.

 

[hadit]

What else do we expect when significant numbers of people got their news from John Stewart?

Jon (not John) Stewart did satire. Nobody was ever stupid enough to take off with some ridiculous Stewart satire and think it was actual news.

On the other hand ---- just check the topics brought up on these very pages over the last year. Count up how many were written or inspired by Paul Horner and Donald Rump, and the suckers actually believed it..

Even the Amish thing.
Oh yeah that was a real thread.

Dumbasses. "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

The Amish one was too funny!

Three Million Amish will vote for Trump and yet less than a million Amish in America and the ones that believed that story did not even look up how many Amish lived here in the States.

That was priceless.

And if you know anything about the Amish you would know they don't vote.

 

[Ozone]

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

And indeed, the fake news writer:

"I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! "​

--- sure didn't go broke, did he?
Neither did Rump, for once.

It's a study in Echobubble self-delusion. We kept telling them it was false, and they kept trotting right back to the same well, somehow expecting different results.

Seems the unwashed are far more interested in mythology that feeds their pre-existing biases, and far less interested in whether it's in any way connected to actual reality.

I keep saying this board needs a resident psychiatrist. Clearly I misunderestimated the scope of that need.

And DAY-UM -- No matter how many times the facts are presented to them, they just keep on keeping on.

As recently as last night, I posted FACTS and had RWNJs criticize the source. Those very same NJs post Alex Jones, Savage, Allen West etc as credible sources.

Its not for nothing that trump said he likes uneducated voters. And, not an accident that the GOP/Repubs don't want Americans to learn "critical thinking" or even get a basic college education.

the 99% of all college students in america are nothing more than tuition cows. they're presented the look and feel of learning, but it's all busy work, keep them stressed and overloaded with a constant stream of self-contradictory arguments while coercing them into blaming society for all their problems, and from there it's all about price gouging. critical thinking, right? but go ahead, keep scapegoating trump, it reveals a lot about your own education system and how much of a scam it is...

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

What else do we expect when significant numbers of people got their news from John Stewart?

Jon (not John) Stewart did satire. Nobody was ever stupid enough to take off with some ridiculous Stewart satire and think it was actual news.

On the other hand ---- just check the topics brought up on these very pages over the last year. Count up how many were written or inspired by Paul Horner and Donald Rump, and the suckers actually believed it..

Even the Amish thing.
Oh yeah that was a real thread.

Dumbasses. "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

The Amish one was too funny!

Three Million Amish will vote for Trump and yet less than a million Amish in America and the ones that believed that story did not even look up how many Amish lived here in the States.

That was priceless.

And if you know anything about the Amish you would know they don't vote.

The funny part to me was not the fact that they do not vote but that someone thought there were three million Amish in the states when anyone with working brain cell and from the Mid-west would know that there are not that many Amish and if I remember correctly the article also stated there were twenty million pledging their vote to Trump...

So yeah I know and grew up in Illinois and went to Amish communities when I was a kid for school trips...

 

[hadit]

What else do we expect when significant numbers of people got their news from John Stewart?

Jon (not John) Stewart did satire. Nobody was ever stupid enough to take off with some ridiculous Stewart satire and think it was actual news.

On the other hand ---- just check the topics brought up on these very pages over the last year. Count up how many were written or inspired by Paul Horner and Donald Rump, and the suckers actually believed it..

Even the Amish thing.
Oh yeah that was a real thread.

Dumbasses. "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

The Amish one was too funny!

Three Million Amish will vote for Trump and yet less than a million Amish in America and the ones that believed that story did not even look up how many Amish lived here in the States.

That was priceless.

And if you know anything about the Amish you would know they don't vote.

The funny part to me was not the fact that they do not vote but that someone thought there were three million Amish in the states when anyone with working brain cell and from the Mid-west would know that there are not that many Amish and if I remember correctly the article also stated there were twenty million pledging their vote to Trump...

So yeah I know and grew up in Illinois and went to Amish communities when I was a kid for school trips...

My grandfather left the Amish as a young man, so I still have pretty close ties to them. Given the state of information overload today, it does seem ludicrous that people really don't bother to verify much of what they read. You would think they would assume most of what they see and hear is bogus. I did some research on a story during the first Gulf war, and found that the dozens of articles written about it all referenced the same original one, with no independent verification.

 

[idb]

Maybe this election will be a boon for real news organisations...driving people to search out real and credible journalism.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I had the misfortune of stumbling on Tucker Carlson's new show last night while he was throwing a tantie DEFENDING the fake news sites that Google is discouraging. Fox needs to fire him. He is on a supposedly bonafide news network and he is seriously spouting that it is a First Amendment right to publish FAKE news.
Guess part of his problem was, Breitbart was on the list. Although he only mentioned that in passing. This is becoming frightening.

Sean Hannity - 100% false news and hero to the useful idiots.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

And indeed, the fake news writer:

"I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! "​

--- sure didn't go broke, did he?
Neither did Rump, for once.

It's a study in Echobubble self-delusion. We kept telling them it was false, and they kept trotting right back to the same well, somehow expecting different results.

Seems the unwashed are far more interested in mythology that feeds their pre-existing biases, and far less interested in whether it's in any way connected to actual reality.

I keep saying this board needs a resident psychiatrist. Clearly I misunderestimated the scope of that need.

And DAY-UM -- No matter how many times the facts are presented to them, they just keep on keeping on.

As recently as last night, I posted FACTS and had RWNJs criticize the source. Those very same NJs post Alex Jones, Savage, Allen West etc as credible sources.

Its not for nothing that trump said he likes uneducated voters. And, not an accident that the GOP/Repubs don't want Americans to learn "critical thinking" or even get a basic college education.

the 99% of all college students in america are nothing more than tuition cows. they're presented the look and feel of learning, but it's all busy work, keep them stressed and overloaded with a constant stream of self-contradictory arguments while coercing them into blaming society for all their problems, and from there it's all about price gouging. critical thinking, right? but go ahead, keep scapegoating trump, it reveals a lot about your own education system and how much of a scam it is...

Hysterical to read this lecture against higher learning from one who can't even use his own language.

Obviously, you're just another useful idiot.

 

[Tehon]

Maybe this election will be a boon for real news organisations...driving people to search out real and credible journalism.

The "real news organisations" all told us that Iraq had WMD. Time will tell if the "fake" ones have done as much damage.

 

[Pogo]

>> The town of Veles, Macedonia (population 44,000), is the unlikely home for dozens of avowedly pro-Trump political news sites, featuring headlines like Hillary’s Illegal Email Just Killed Its First American Spy and This is How Liberals Destroyed America, This Is Why We Need Trump in the White House.

The Guardian has identified more than 150 domains registered to people claiming addresses in Veles, though not all of those are associated with active websites.

Some claim to garner millions of page views per month. Most others are relatively obscure. All of them exist primarily for one reason – to cash in on the seemingly endless appetite for news about Donald Trump. And they’re getting a big boost from Facebook.

Fake names and death threats
The creator of a popular Macedonian site, “Alex” claims that he was one of the first of his countrymen to write about US politics. (Alex is not his real name, and he spoke on condition of anonymity.) He claims his neighbors copied his idea and have capitalized on the Trump wave. According to Alex, his site gets more than 1m visits a month, roughly half of them driven by his Facebook page.

“We are an independent news magazine with [our] primary goal to influence American policy, especially politics,” says Alex, who originally favored Ted Cruz in the Republican primaries. “Then my city fellows saw what I was doing and started to copy my work. They are just looking to earn money from ad networks.”

In fact, these foreign sites probably wouldn’t exist without their domestic counterparts, from whom they crib many of their stories. (Alex admits he started out by copying and pasting stories from conservative US news sites but says he’s recently hired a half-dozen US-based writers to produce original content.)

.... There are hundreds of relatively obscure political sites registered on this side of the Atlantic that grab news from mainstream outlets, rewrite the headlines to be click-friendly, and blast them out to their readers using Facebook. << --- How Nosebook powers money machines for obscure political 'news' sites
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And the Rump-drunk zombies ate this up like candy, getting played like a three-dollar banjo. Morons.

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