Published 3 hours ago on November 21, 2019
Ex-Fox News executive caught running a disinformation and fake news farm — using writers from Macedonia
A New York Times expose revealed that Fox News paid writers in Macedonia to create click-bait that prompt Americans to fight more about issues.
According to the piece, both the left and right websites created by an international content farm to inflame people enough to click and share content.
Conservative Edition News and Liberal Edition News intentionally writes stories with the purpose to infuriate each side for the purpose of generating hate-clicks, response articles and more. Headlines like “Austin sex-ed curriculum teaches kids how to obtain an abortion” and “HuffPost writer considers Christianity ‘dangerous'” give right-wing audiences fodder for anger to lash out at their counterparts.
“The sites are the work of Ken LaCorte, the former Fox News executive who was accused of killing a story about President Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress, before the 2016 election,” wrote The Times.
Young Macedonians in Veles were the ones “churning out disinformation” for the 2016 election campaign.
“Among Mr. LaCorte’s network was one writer who helped peddle a conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton had ties to a pedophile ring,” the report explained.
According to reports from The Guardian and on BuzzFeed the Macedonian town of 55,000 people was the registered home of at least 100 pro-Trump websites. Wired described them as sites dominated with sensationalist, utterly fake news.
It was unknown who was behind all of the websites until recently, but the investigation and research at a security firm in Virginia discovered that there are several websites owned by LaCorte that are promoting disinformation, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and inflammatory content.
None of the stories have authors on them, and the bottom of the pages says “By Bivona Digital Inc.” It’s a company that uses an address often “reserved for transient sailors off the San Francisco Bay in Sausalito, California.”
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