“We’re the new yellow journalists,” Wade will say after a day and night when the number of people following LibertyWritersNews on Facebook will swell by more than 20,000. !”“F--- Facebook,” Wade says, knowing its algorithms sometimes assume that rapidly shared articles are spam and temporarily blocks them if posted by an alternative outlet. He needed more writers, and in 2015 Wade and Goldman started doing stories and getting paid based on how many clicks they got. “Because that’s what sold papers.”Now Wade writes on their Facebook page that “THOUSANDS” of protesters are marching “with MEXICAN FLAGS,” and meanwhile Goldman types his own article. He shares it on their Facebook page and watches as readers stream into the website — first a few hundred, then nearly 1,000.

Source: Washington Post November 20, 2016 22:55 UTC