Article 224DV Hugely successful Facebook fake news author considers himself a "satirist"

Hugely successful Facebook fake news author considers himself a "satirist"

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Cory Doctorow
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Paul Horner says he made more than $10,000 month writing fake news on Facebook that was widely shared by Trump supporters and picked up by the real press -- for example, hoax stories about protesters being paid to turn out against Trump -- and that he targeted Trump supporters as an act of "satire" to show that they would credulously share anything, providing that it confirmed their conspiracy theories about the left and the Democratic party. (more")

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