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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Dec 9, 2016, 09:32 PM Dec 2016

Fake News: How a Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies for Donald Trump

VELES, Macedonia — Dimitri points to a picture on his Instagram showing a bar table decked with expensive champagne and sparklers.

It's from his 18th birthday just four months ago — a lavish party in his east European hometown that he says wouldn't have been possible without President-elect Donald Trump.

Dimitri — who asked NBC News not to use his real name — is one of dozens of teenagers in the Macedonian town of Veles who got rich during the U.S. presidential election producing fake news for millions on social media.

The articles, sensationalist and often baseless, were posted to Facebook, drawing in armies of readers and earning fake-news writers money from penny-per-click advertising.

Dimitri says he's earned at least $60,000 in the past six months — far outstripping his parents' income and transforming his prospects in a town where the average annual wage is $4,800. He is one of the more successful fake news pushers in the area.
His main source of cash? Supporters of America's president-elect.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fake-news-how-a-partying-macedonian-teen-earns-thousands-publishing-lies/ar-AAlmttG?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Fake News: How a Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies for Donald Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 OP
Hopefully karma bpositive Dec 2016 #1
Probably in the form of some of uncle Vlad's tanks rolling down his street RonniePudding Dec 2016 #3
Sigggggghhhhhhhhhhhh JHan Dec 2016 #2
... Lucinda Dec 2016 #4
 

RonniePudding

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3. Probably in the form of some of uncle Vlad's tanks rolling down his street
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:15 PM
Dec 2016

After he takes Bulgaria and the other helpless republics along the way.

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