Michigan's new "Local News" website scam. 1000's more coming to other states.

hanimmal

hanimmal

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/us/michigan-metric-media-news.html

So a bunch of websites that are designed to look like local newspaper websites were just opened by a company specializing in using data to know exactly how to 'advertise' to people on a local level.

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Despite working for Michigan State University outside Lansing, Mich., Matt Grossmann had never heard of The Lansing Sun until he stumbled across the website on his Facebook news feed earlier this month.

So when he clicked on an advertised article about Michigan’s roads spending that criticized the state’s Democratic governor, he was curious to know whether The Sun was a new outlet serving the state capital’s 118,000 residents and political leaders.

What he discovered instead was a network of nearly 40 websites that appear to be local news outlets from throughout Michigan but offer largely identical articles about taxes, alleged voter fraud and education costs with a distinctly conservative political tone. Websites with names like The Grand Rapids Reporter, The Kalamazoo Times and Waterford Today include little local news beyond gas prices and prewritten releases about library events.
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This is how information bubbles are formed. Only the information they want to be on those websites will go onto it and they can centralize the stream of information and use data analytics to write the 'local' articles based on collecting realtime data form everyone's social media.

This is just mentioning the right-wing websites. It is very possible that they will have websites designed to every bubble they try to make to sway/depress voters as needed to get the people they want elected.
 
I use duck duck go browser mostly, I'm pretty sure it blocks trackers. I don't seem to have advertisements from things I've searched following me around. Sometimes I use Google browser in incognito mode too.

I do know on Yahoo website, if you use Yahoo search bar instead of your browser search bar, Yahoo will show you ads for similar shit you searched

I burst bubbles
 
More proof that if you have no morality when it comes to maintaining power, Right wing propagandists cat fishing American citizens is just par for the course.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/19/locality-labs-fake-news-local-sites-newspapers
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NPR did some great pieces on the fake news websites too:
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltec...f-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs

Great explanation of how easy it is to generate 'fake news'
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Side note: How do you guys link to stories with the nice little box that describes the story with the title and all that?
 
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