BBC Reveals False News Market in Kosovo HINA Wins About 600 Euros a Day

Miller says he first came to Kosovo about a year ago for a research on how power is changing into the digital era.

He says he heard of suspicious Russian influence campaigns and armies struggling with information.

But the people I met there showed me there was another, very simple reason why people send false and sensational news to the Western audience. It was for money they distribute it because we open”, says journalist Miller in the script published on BBCTime broadcast.net.

“Clickbait” and “fake neps” are the terms sometimes used to describe false or sensational materials that circulate on the internet.

A year ago, “Source” showed me that mismanagement is a thriving industry. Some of this inaccurate information was political, and most were worse.

The dog guard who shot the dog until his bones were broken left out of prison” was one of the stories. “The boy wakes up from the coma after 12 years, of his parents' dark secret piss” was another.

Most of them were false. And although some seemed to be news, this content had only one reason - clicks.

Making money from the internet means catching an audience and the businessman who has talked to reporter Miller had about 12 Facebook pages dedicated to everything from Evangelical Christianity to holiday destinations.

Despite the theme, the audience was too large: 90,000 consents; 240,000 consents; 26,000 consents.

“Source” could distribute its contents to about 1 million viewers, and those clicks would turn them into access from ads from both the social network platform and the outside pages. The profit went to about 600 euros a day.

That's a lot more money than he'd get from any legitimate job.

Ever since I met The Source, Miller says, the technology giants have vowed to shut this industry down. False news is what Mark Zuckerberg calls his personal “fides”.

In 2018, Facebook doubled its security team to 20,000 and closed many pages and groups distributing “clickbait”, limiting their content to nearly invisibility.

But last month, I returned, this time with the BBC. I wanted to see if something had changed and what the fake Facebook anti-news maneuver looked like in the eyes of those dealing with it”, Miller says, transmits Koha.net.

“Audience on that page is mainly from Great Britain”, says the man, grinning while he hangs his head in front of his phone so the camera doesn't get his face.

BBC journalist says Facebook's latest campaign has caused profits to drop from 600 euros a day to about 100.

The distribution of false news has already become less profitable and perhaps even less political. Perhaps he has become a campaign for celebrities with false stories about footballers breaking legs or sex stories. The creator of these content already distributes small things, not for Trump.

Young People

However, although less profitable, this practice is still widespread.

“2 percent of Kosovo youth are dealing with this”, a businessman says. “With thousands and thousands of”, the other says.

And it's not surprising. 100 euros a day is still a life-changing fee for someone, such as the one who earned 7 euros a day as a waiter before starting to deal with it. “Why the” was clear. But, facing Facebook reforms, the biggest surprise was “si”.

There's another side of this fake news industry that we don't see. I learned that there is a network of closed groups, with memberships that may contain some thousands to hundreds of thousands. To be part of such a closed group, an invitation must be accepted.

But inside, it was clear that Facebook was not just a place for the audience to reap. It was where false news merchants exchanged.

Miller says to have seen Facebook pages with hundreds of thousands of preferences exchanged for thousands of dollars. Others sold false consent, or false accounts, or offered advice on how to cope with Facebouk's reinforcements.

He even says they found a <x0paco for fake news beginners”, along with a Facebook page collection to add the audience, as well as with websites to mount your activity. It was an economic service sector for mismanagement.

It wasn't just Facebook that was becoming more innovative, since bading merchants also became more and more innovative. Some specialized in raising pages and then selling them. Others sold content, and others still focused on how to overcome Facebook reinforcements.

Even within small groups, this happens repeatedly and with dozens of times a day. It was an industrial-scale game of Facebook politics and systems.

Worldwide, there are thousands of people like those I talked to in Kosovo, says BBC journalist. “are usually young men and well-known technology, who are able to share what content to click. And in pursuit of online clicks, horror, shock, overblownness or division wins again and again”.

Miller says that so far, this is the easiest and most accessible way to make money for some. If you want to stop this, you can't just burn the fields. You have to give people something else to cultivate.