A network of hundreds of websites and Facebook pages is pushing fake news to a global audience including Canadians. CBC’s visual investigations team and Radio-Canada’s Decrypteurs trace the network to a company in Vietnam that claims to have more than 100 employees to reveal how the global misinformation economy operates.
Check out our other investigations in this ongoing series on the global supply chain of fake outrage:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-separatist-youtube-channels-netherlands-9.7174719
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facebook-overseas-alberta-separtism-9.7223966
0:00 – Intro
0:39 – The AI slop empire
1:59 – Unraveling the network
4:47 – The profit motive
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