Macedonian teens out-earned neighbors enormously via targeted fraud

Evidence

These digital entrepreneurs went beyond the usual content farm scam of churning out low-quality articles on trending topics. They created fraudulent clickbait about the Trump–Clinton matchup, promoted it to older Americans on Facebook, and could make in three days what their neighbors earned in a year—all without much knowledge of American politics or even fluency in English. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 481

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interests in status dynamics and media manipulation — fake news as pure commercial fabrication rather than ideology.