Archive for January, 2017
Economics of fake news
Scott Shane for the New York Times: Within a few days, the story, which had taken him 15 minutes to concoct, had earned him about $5,000. That was a sizable share of the $22,000 an accounting statement shows he made during the presidential campaign from ads for shoes, hair gel and web design that Google […]
Canary in the coal mine
Christopher Glazek writing for The Outline: โThe problem is that with Gawker gone there was no one around willing to proudly play the heel and do the wrong thing.โ While publishing the full dossier might have been off-brand for Vox, we should be grateful that BuzzFeed is filling some of the vacuum left by Peter […]