{"id":1683,"date":"2016-11-10T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:01:51","slug":"teens-earn-1000s-from-producing-fake-news-distributed-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/11\/10\/teens-earn-1000s-from-producing-fake-news-distributed-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens earn $1000s from producing fake news distributed on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A 16-year-old who runs a site called BVAnews.com told him it\u2019s averaging 1 million page views per month. He declined to share revenue figures, but in theory that could translate to tens of thousands of U.S. dollars per year\u2014many times more than Macedonia\u2019s median income. The 16-year-old told Silverman he experimented with pro\u2013Bernie Sanders news during the primary, but found pro-Trump content far more popular on the social network.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2016\/11\/04\/facebook_is_fueling_an_international_boom_in_pro_trump_propaganda.html\">Facebook Is Fueling an International Boom in Pro-Trump Propaganda<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A 16-year-old who runs a site called BVAnews.com told him it\u2019s averaging 1 million page views per month. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,38,42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-practice","category-lies","category-propaganda-methods","category-social-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20633,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/20633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}