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The social media world has been awash with news stories about fake news going viral on Facebook and Google. The slugfest that was the 2016 US election opened a window for opportunistic writers to invent news that some people wanted to hear but did not necessarily have any basis in truth. If they are to be believed, a group of Macedonian teenagers told BuzzFeed they raked in $5,000 per month by aggressively creating phony stories that intentionally emboldened the political positions of Donald Trump supporters. It seems that fake news has the ability to severely damage the reputation of organizations and people while calling themselves a parody publication or distributing from a different country.