Fake news still has a home on Facebook

Blair, who runs a satirical Facebook group from his home, in his backyard in Gorham, Maine, on June 4, 2024. Blair, a renowned ‘liberal troll’ who posts falsehoods to Facebook, is having a banner year despite crackdowns by Facebook and growing competition from AI. — The New York Times

On the morning of Jan 6, 2021, Christopher Blair’s fake news empire was humming along.

Blair had been earning as much as US$15,000 (RM70,695) in some months by posting false stories to Facebook about Democrats and the election, reaching millions of people each month.