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The Conservative Daily Post has a simple business model, according to court documents: use blood-boiling stories to channel hyperpartisan outrage into wads of advertising cash.
At the top of the funnel was the popular Facebook profile of pundit Laura Hunter, a Barack Obama-hating, Donald Trump-trumpeting activist blogger with a beauty queen’s face and close to a million followers.
She churned out posts at a dizzying clip, sometimes twice an hour — bogus stories about the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, or Bill Clinton’s involvement in an illicit sex ring. She frequently pointed out just how distrustful the American mainstream media was.
The stories — all of which happened to be articles from the Conservative Daily Post — were mostly untrue, a lawsuit says. But they apparently seemed plausible to their target audience of conservative readers, who widely shared many of the stories Hunter posted.
The real Laura Hunter is a Washington state resident who won the Ms. World pageant in 2016. The television actress and model has owned a photography business for 20 years, according to the site.
She’s also politically left of center, her attorney says — not the conservative Tennessee pundit that the Conservative Daily Post claimed.
She came face-to-face with her Internet alter ego in October after an email from a man named Michael Powell, according to the lawsuit. Powell said he ran an advertising agency in Las Vegas and had a client who wanted to use Hunter’s head shot “from a few years ago.”
But he dodged Hunter’s efforts to talk by phone, according to court documents. In another email, he asked her to send more head shots, ostensibly so he could persuade his “client” to use them.
Worried by the confusing conversations, Hunter Googled herself.
The top return linked to the conservative activist’s page on Facebook.
That’s when Hunter says she realized Powell had “turned her persona into a highly rated spokesperson for a right wing political website called the Conservative Daily Review.”
originally posted by: Aazadan
a reply to: Krazysh0t
You would be surprised how often this happens. Put a pretty face on something, often times female, and turn them into ideologues writing about whatever (ultra conservative stories are common) behind a team of ghost writers.
The most common example I can think of is pundits who write books.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: Aazadan
a reply to: Krazysh0t
You would be surprised how often this happens. Put a pretty face on something, often times female, and turn them into ideologues writing about whatever (ultra conservative stories are common) behind a team of ghost writers.
The most common example I can think of is pundits who write books.
It's a disgusting practice and could potentially ruin someone's life.
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: Jdubious
I'm still confused:
Miss World 2016 is Stephanie Del Valle from Puerto Rico!