As per the article, these are fake news sites, built by a Democratic strategist to try and swing swing-state voters over to Democrats with “news” generated on these sites and then hyper-targeted at Facebook users through advertising who they think can be persuaded to vote Democrat.
These sites are playing on the belief that people generally trust local news more than national news outlets, so they lie to their consumers about the origin of the news.
As per the article, these are fake news sites, built by a Democratic strategist to try and swing swing-state voters over to Democrats with “news” generated on these sites and then hyper-targeted at Facebook users through advertising who they think can be persuaded to vote Democrat.
These sites are playing on the belief that people generally trust local news more than national news outlets, so they lie to their consumers about the origin of the news.