En parlant de "faux nouvelles" ...

Keep seeing more and more misleading/superfluous click bait ads posing as "news" on the far right of these pages, intermingled with actual news stories. These companies are getting pretty sneaky snaky. Someone told me if you actually try to "X" one of those off the page, it actually counts as a legitimate click for the ad company. I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is partially true. 

Advertisers/salesmen/politicians are some of the most effective schemers in society. I guess that's what this country's economy was built on....CONsumption. It's amusing to read the snake oil sales ads in the old timer newspapers from 100 years ago. I guess some things will never change. There will always be gullible folks, willing to believe anything, in exchange for your confidence and/or a buck.