Just because it’s trending, doesn’t mean it’s true ~ Maarten Schenk’s blog
BBC Interviews Christopher Blair And Maarten Schenk in “The Faker and The Fact Checker”
https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3469879-fake-news-bbc-world-service—trending-the-faker-and-the-fact-checker.html
BREAKING: Clinton Foundation Ship Seized at Port of Baltimore Carrying Drugs, Guns and Sex Slaves
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_godfather_of_fake_news
“Changing” the US constitution is particularly fun – he’s already written more than 30 fake amendments. (There are only 27 genuine ones.)
Christopher Blair grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, a city on the northern outskirts of Boston. His stepfather was a committed Democrat who once ran for the Massachusetts state senate. Once his fake news started to get clicks, he was able to use Google’s advertising platform to convert page views into money. In 2014, he quit his day job. They had one aim – to provoke an emotional response that would get people to share them.
The words flow from the thoughts in his head. Unconnected to reality, he needs no research, and no notes.
His fingers rhythmically tap the keys. Letters form into words, words into sentences and sentences into a blog of about 200 words.
It doesn’t take long to write.
Publish.
Blair sits back in his chair and watches the likes and shares roll in.
Yesterday Eli Saslow at the Washington Post wrote a fantastic article about Christopher Blair, a man from Maine who has been trolling conservatives and Trump supporters online for years and occasionally even made a living out of it.
https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3469909-christopher-blair-busta-troll-americas-last-line-of-defense-reading-list.html
This 40-something former construction worker
runs a series of websites including the now-defunct thelastlineofdefense.org. That particular site posted a “fake news” story that was what fake news used to be called—a real big old fucking lie. It used a picture of an actual Muslim cleric, saying he was refusing to help hurricane survivors, and it got that cleric death threats.
https://affotd.com/2018/10/10/christopher-blair/