A dodgy advert, an image embedded in an online forum, a malicious link on reddit. I agree this sounds worrying.
Just publish some really divisive fake news about Brexit and that'll rack up the UK hits on Facebook.
Christ, it's even worse than I thought.
But I am going to try a few PoC ones later today. (On a private network, using all domains and computers I control.)
I... View a lot of use of digital records as the witchtrials of the modern era (eg, cases where people got charged for child porn because a coworker used their machine, but the logs say it was them!). The conclusions don't logically hold up, but reveal something about our reverance for technology (and assuming it worked right).
How did we get here? Many folks have surfed the web for 20 years, even more for 15, most for 10 --- now in 2016, surprise surprise, fake news abound! /s Almost as if coinciding with the calls for (or introductions of) related legislation..
We are talking about blatant spam sites in which the owners openly admitted to making up stories out of whole cloth.