The Foreign Pro-Trump Fake News Industry Has Pivoted To American Patriotism

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Emily Baker-White is an investigative reporter and senior writer at Forbes. She joined Forbes from BuzzFeed News in 2022 and covers the way tech companies shape our discourse, commerce, and culture. Baker-White’s coverage of TikTok has been widely cited by lawmakers, regulators and other news outlets.

It’s been more than eight years since content farms overseas started “American” fake news pages on Facebook. Their business, now fueled by AI, is still going strong.he idea of America is big business on Facebook. The social network has hosted more than a hundred pages that have adopted American patriotism as a theme, boasting names like Proud American, Proud To Be An American, American Story, and We Are America.

Pages like We Are America, American Patriots and USA Army Is Love post a mix of real and AI-generated photography and memes.fed three of the American Patriots articles through an AI text detector called GPT-Zero, which found that they were 79%, 85%, and 100% likely to have been generated by AI. The detector also found that stories linked from We Love America, a page from Spain, and American Story, a Macedonian page, had a 100% likelihood of being generated by AI.

Some of the American patriotic pages still featured political topics, with recent posts on topics including critical race theory and trans rights. In the aggregate, though, the pages didn’t focus on politics. More often, they featured formulaic tabloid stories, like tales of cheating spouses or disrespected blue collar workers who get revenge on the elitists who snubbed them.

 

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