One small Macedonian town hosted over a hundred pro-Trump fake news websites

Evidence

Now that all seventeen American intelligence agencies have concluded that the Russian government was actively involved in hacking the US election, such claims of innocence must be taken with a shaker of salt. After the Kremlin broke into the Democratic National Committee’s computers in search of information that could be used to manipulate the election—and a good deal of the pro-Trump fake news came from Russia and its satellites—is it really so hard to believe that some of the financial incentive (or at least the idea) behind Hillary-bashing fake news may have come from political sources? The hackers themselves may have been interested only in money, but whose purposes were they serving? Indeed, one tiny town in Macedonia accounted for over a hundred pro-Trump websites. Are we to believe that this was not a coordinated effort and that there was no ideological goal behind it? — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 215

Categorization

• QUESTION: The Macedonia claim — over a hundred pro-Trump sites from one town — is a striking concentration worth chasing for verification and explanation.
• XREF: connects to: A collapsed Macedonian town pivoted to fake news as its new economy — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 480; Economic desperation drove Macedonian youth to fabricate US election news

Broader Connections

• A collapsed Macedonian town pivoted to fake news as its new economy #corroborates (0.95) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 480
• Economic desperation drove Macedonian youth to fabricate US election news #expands (0.90)