These Fake Local News Sites Have Confused People for Years. We Found Out Who Created Them. [buzzfeednews.com]
By Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed.News, February 6, 2020 Jay Pinho and his wife, Victoria, rely on Google Alerts to track the public appearances of US Supreme Court justices on their website, SCOTUS Map. But late last year, the results began to worry them. “A crop of news [website] domains were popping up that I'd never heard of before, and they were often publishing directly plagiarized pieces from real outlets,” he told BuzzFeed News. In addition to being plagiarized, the content flooding his...