Exposed: How corporates are funding fake news
Some of South Africa’s biggest banks, insurance companies and car manufacturers have been caught advertising on fake news websites. A...
Funding Fake News
Programmatic Advertising
As we've highlighted elsewhere on this site, disinformation websites monetise their traffic using various means, including cryptojacking and direct advertising....
Gridcash
Cryptojacking is a more insidious, and less obvious, method used to make money from a website's visitors. With the boom...
Google Adsense
Google Adsense is a popular programmatic advertising platform, and chances are you've come across one or more of their ads...
MGID
MGID is a programmatic advertising platform frequently used by misinformation websites. The reasons for its popularity is likely as a...
Banner Advertising
A more traditional source of revenue for the owners of misinformation websites is direct advertising. Elsewhere, we've already detailed how...
