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Misinformation mine: Facebook shuts down Halifax man’s pro-Trump trade

For the past three years, Nicholas Kingsland has made his income sharing hyper-partisan news stories about American politics on social media. His livelihood involves spreading polarizing content across multiple Facebook pages to an easily riled, mostly right-wing audience—generating revenue by sharing links and driving high volumes of traffic to other websites. But Kingsland isn’t mining this […]

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