The same happens in print media, 'Het Financeele Dagblad', the Dutch analogy to the Financial Times had a whole pile of IBM advertising copy in it that was the spitting image of their editorial content.
The article is about news sites which copy articles. The sites that those ads link to are entirely ads with no real news.
It's about fake views, not fake or copied news. The first site was copying articles (and banned by Google) but the Laredo one doesn't seem to be.