Creating Fake News

When the usual reader goes online and looks for their daily dose of news chances are they are not looking for fictional stories that spread completely false information. In fact you might be surprised to find that as you read a news article the whole thing could be full of false information. But why would there be people that write completely false stories? As Jestin Coler (publisher of fake news sites) explains in his interview (NPR Report), "The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction." His idea was to create sites with URL's that look legitimate such as USAToday.com.co and WashingtonPost.com.co then post fake news to the sites in an attempt to try to bring down the alt-right. At the the end of the article the reporter asks a fake news contributor a couple questions and we learn that there are dozens of fake news sites with the same purpose as USAToday.com.co we also learn that there is good money to be made in the fake news business, about $10,000-$30,000 a month if you play
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