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I’ve Been Making Viral Fake News for the Last Six Months. It’s Way Too Easy to Dupe the Right on the Internet.

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Here’s what I learned trapping trending algorithms and the people of Facebook, even when I wasn’t really trying to.

Marco Chacon
Marco Chacon
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Marco Chacon

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