Veles fake-news writers chose Trump purely for profit

Evidence

At first, the story’s most shocking revelation was the political agnosticism of the Veles content farmers. They backed Trump simply because it paid better. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 484

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Most 2016 election fake news stories favored Trump over Clinton by a wide margin — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 516; Pro-Trump fake news earned vastly more ad revenue than pro-Clinton content — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 214