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The Business of Trafficking in Political Disinformation and Fake News

2 years 8 months ago

In my previous article on Decide Technologies’ connections to the alt-right, I shared my research into when LockerDome’s alt-right advertising network first launched shortly after Ferguson, the size of the network that we can see with our own eyes and my estimates for how much money the company is paying out to alt-right publishers and how much they’re making.

  • Size of Alt-right publisher network: 115 sites generating 567 million page views a month 
  • Revenue to Alt-right publishers: an estimated $6.53 million to $15.24 million a year
  • Revenue to Decide Technologies: an estimated $0.54 million to $1.27 million a month

In this article, I’ll explain how ad networks work for any publisher, and why Decide's business proposition lends itself especially well to working with fake news and disinformation networks.

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This Week In Techdirt History: October 30th – November 5th

2 years 8 months ago
Five Years Ago This week in 2017, declassified documents revealed the NSA’s efforts to prosecute a journalist for successful FOIA requests, a judge refused a boilerplate request from the DOJ for a gag order, Dianne Feinstein was trying to get Twitter to just hand over a bunch of private communications, and we took a closer […]
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‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ Is a Must-See Theatrical Experience

2 years 8 months ago

Florissant Performing Arts Center Presents Hawthorne Player’s 75th Anniversary Finale          by Pat Lindsey The Hawthorne Players is currently presenting its final main show of its 75th season with the award-winning play, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” It’s an excellent choice to showcase the recently renamed Florissant Performing Arts Center’s new […]

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