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    BuzzFeed media editor: Most fake news creators are financially driven

    February 14, 2017 - By allisonr

    BY JASMINE BALA Staff Reporter Most fake news creators are doing it for the money rather than for ideological reasons, a leading authority on fake news and verification said at the annual Ryerson School of Journalism Atkinson lecture. Craig Silverman, the media editor for BuzzFeed News, said two Canadian teenagers who create fake news stories have earned as much as $10,000 a month from advertising after their fabricated accounts about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spread on the Internet. “Most of the people I’ve encountered tend to be small operators,” he told the crowd of mostly journalism students. “Sometimes they’ll try…

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    Lecture on fake news from Buzzfeed media editor and digital verification expert Craig Silverman

    January 2, 2017 - By allisonr

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