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Comment by vinhboy | Hacker News Reader

This story is fascinating to me. I also run a couple of these "wordpress" informational type sites, but never in my dream did I thought about publishing fake news to make money.

Too bad I was not smart enough to get into this business.

I wish he would be more honest about it. I am pretty sure he's just doing it for the money. I don't blame him. That's good money.

The moral and ethical dilemma of it is kinda murky. Is it really his fault people are so stupid?

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Probably he indeed started doing this for fun but eventually did the "pivot" :-).

Wow. Thanks for the insight into this psychology. It's all greed with you then isn't it? You'll lie to people and de-educate them for good money. Perhaps you would consider being a slum lord or a pimp or a drug dealer for the right price?

Do you really think it's possible to de-educate any further people who think the moon landing was faked?

Just as education, de-education is a lifelong process.

If one lacks education in the first place, they don't have much to de-, do they?

I suppose you would watch the world burn.

Of course. "Do you really think" it's fine to encourage them further?

Don't think we're really on a moral high ground here when a huge chunk of this forum likely makes a living from utilising in depth personal info to drive advertisements, targeted advertising from the major tech companies make it all possible.

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