A Forbes review identified 67 Facebook pages that identified themselves as champions of American news, culture or identity, but were actually based overseas.
Click farmers, especially those from Macedonia, have a long history on Facebook. During the 2016 presidential election, teenagers in the small Eastern European country pushed fake news to millions.
The pages promoting them fake Americanness because they get paid every time someone clicks on one of their links, and in the advertising world, American clicks are some of the most valuable.
Instead, they’re run by foreign click farmers, many of whom are based in Macedonia, who use AI to pump out a near-endless ocean of clickbaity soup.
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