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It’s damn hard to make money producing original journalism. But know what works kinda well? Throw together a WordPress site, copy and paste *other* people’s journalism, and run ads via Google. This guy got millions of views thx to links from Drudge: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/drudge-report-links-site-plagiarizes-stories
Here's a network of 100 sites dating back to 2015 that plagiarized stories from major news organizations, masqueraded as local news and financial outlets, and manipulated Google News and search results to earn money through ads: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/these-fake-local-news-sites-have-confused-people-for-years
CNBC reporter @megancgraham got tired of seeing her stories copied and pasted onto scraper sites. So she set up one of her own and showed how easy it is get it accepted by ad networks: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/17/broken-internet-ad-system-makes-it-easy-to-earn-money-with-plagiarism.html
Here's a story about a site called http://forbesbusinessinsider.com that "copies and pastes entire articles from other publishers and reposts them with very slight changes." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50432080
Another option is to fill a site with poorly aggregated local news content and exploit your knowledge of digital advertising to generate a massive fake audience so you can rake in the money: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-local-news-sites-albany-edmonton
Original journalism is time and resource intensive, but copying it is easy and instant with a website plugin.
Local news is dying, but fake local news is lucrative if you know how to play it right.
Please support real news in any way you can.
Local news is dying, but fake local news is lucrative if you know how to play it right.
Please support real news in any way you can.
