There was a story in BuzzFeed a couple days ago about how there are like 140 fake conservative news sites all basically run by teenagers out of a single Macedonian town. For Adsense revenue.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...

There was talk recently about how "a lot of Macedonian teenagers" were creating clickbait fake news sites to make a dime on Facebook. They figured out the formula that excited a certain cohort into lots of shares & clicks and they used it to make ad money.

Here's the thing: anyone who uses this site knows that algorithmic ranking systems are gameable. There are some protections against individuals or small groups repeatedly gaming the system, but Facebook has put a profit motive behind it. That, and stopping all of /pol/, or the 280,000 members from /r/The_Donald is not so easy.

It's in reference to this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...