Author describes Columbus ‘fake news masterpiece’ that duped thousands | NBC4i.com
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COLUMBUS (WCMH) – A Maryland man behind the ‘fake news masterpiece’ that claimed that thousands of fraudulent votes were found in a Columbus warehouse says he did it for the money.
Cameron Harris operated the ‘Christian Times’ fake news website that published a widely shared story about fraudulent ballots being found in Franklin County.
Harris told the New York Times that he bought an abandoned domain name for $5 and got to work.
The story claimed that an unnamed source said that a maintenance worker inspecting a warehouse found 12 sealed ballot boxes filled with thousands of votes for Hillary Clinton in the upcoming general election. The website asserted that the “likely goal was to slip the fake ballot boxes in with real ballot boxes.”
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I am torn between my love and respect of the first amendment and my disdain for people who do shit like this. I spent a lot of time during the past election cycle fact checking and identifying fake news sites (both against Clinton and against Trump) and trying to let people know which were fake and which were real (predominantly on FB).
It became so completely overwhelming that I finally gave up.
Unfortunately the truth gets lost in all the fucking noise from all sides.
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