Scammers have cooked up a truly strange scheme to leech traffic from journalists.
Something odd caught my eye on Twitter the other day. Someone had tweeted a version of an article I’d written for HuffPost — complete with the same headline and image — but the link led to a different website: Newsbuzzr. When I clicked, I couldn’t help but laugh.
My byline was gone, too. It had been swapped out for “Jack,” a mononymous Newsbuzzr writer, and a busy one at that: “Jack” has churned out thousands of articles in recent months, doggedly covering everything from sports to foreign political crises to the latest celebrity gossip. An enviable portfolio — even for a bot!
It seemed clear that Newsbuzzr’s modus operandi was to rip and repost stories from legitimate media outlets after running them through some sort of automated synonym generator in a laughable attempt to sidestep outright plagiarism — a cheap scheme to leech content for ad revenue.
Story continuesAt a surface level, this rip-reword-repost operation is a creative little scam . But it is alarming that it’s evidently profitable to scrape content for ad traffic in this way, and the scheme illustrates just how skewed the economic incentives of our click-driven media industry are. Newsbuzzr and several of the other sites I looked at have used Google AdSense to monetize their pages. However, Google told me that it has since blocked them for violating its quality guidelines.
Brasil Últimas Notícias, Brasil Manchetes
Similar News:Você também pode ler notícias semelhantes a esta que coletamos de outras fontes de notícias.
The 38 most bizarre lines from Donald Trump's wild impromptu news conferenceThe 38 most bizarre lines from Donald Trump's wild impromptu news conference | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
Consulte Mais informação »
Chris Moyles tricks Twitter into thinking he's deadThe hashtag ripchrismoyles started trending on Twitter on Thursday morning, sending the site into meltdown
Consulte Mais informação »
Heather Locklear's Close Friend Confirms She's Checked Into TreatmentThe actress' longtime pal tells ET 'she's thankful for having another opportunity.'
Consulte Mais informação »