Lifestyles Report …Beware of fake news

•Take a screenshot of the photo, cropping out everything but the image itself.
•Open up Google Images in your browser.
•Drag the screenshot into the Google Images search field.
•Google will tell you its best guess as to who or what is pictured, and where the image originated.
According to a Buzzfeed story, young people in Macedonia created more than 100 pro-Trump websites to spread false news. The motive wasn’t political; it was to make money off your clicks.
Go to www.Snopes.com to verify if the site is fake or not, they have a list of fake news sites.
How much money can you bring in by making stuff up and putting it on the Internet? “I make like $10,000 a month from AdSense,” said Paul Horner, a prolific Facebook-focused, fake-news writer. And, among a growing group of Macedonian teenagers who see fake-news sites as a way to make easy money from American gullibility, the most successful can make about $5,000 a month, BuzzFeed reported. Reportedly, “anybody can make a site and put ads on it,” he said. “They can easily set up a business, create content, and once it is viral, it drives traffic to their site.”
(Email the columnist debbie-norrell@aol.com)
 
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