This is how Facebook’s fake news writers make money; Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’; Facebook ‘raptured’ a bunch of users, telling many that they were dead; Mark Zuckerberg denies that fake news on Facebook influenced the elections; ‘We actually elected a meme as president’: How 4chan celebrated Trump’s victory;
 
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This is how Facebook’s fake news writers make money
"I make like $10,000 a month from AdSense," one fake news writer said this week.
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Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’
The man responsible for many of this year's viral political hoaxes thinks he may have swung the election.
 
Facebook ‘raptured’ a bunch of users, telling many that they were dead
Did Facebook display a memorial message asking your friends to remember you, or were you left behind?
 
Mark Zuckerberg denies that fake news on Facebook influenced the elections
Zuckerberg said that the spread of hyperpartisan fake news across Facebook “surely had no impact” on who voters chose to be president.
 
‘We actually elected a meme as president’: How 4chan celebrated Trump’s victory
Even 4chan was surprised by Donald Trump's election victory.
 
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