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As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size

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The voice of journalismAugust 4, 2020Editor’s Note: This is the second of our four pieces on this network. In December 2019, we first established the distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points. In October 2021, we found that the network had as well as.&nbsp;Figure 1: The organizational structure of the networkFigure 2: A single algorithmically generated story with different stock photography that appeared across over 850 domains&nbsp;Evolution and Sprawl of the Network in 2020&nbsp;Figure 3: Metric Media and LGIS # sites per statetheFigure 4: Different page ownerships on Facebook for publications within the same networkHas America ever needed a media watchdog more than now? Help us by .Priyanjana Bengani is a senior research fellow at Columbia Journalism School's Tow Center for Digital Journalism.On Saturday, September 3, the body of Jeff German, an investigative reporter at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was found outside his home. He had been stabbed to death in an altercation nearly twenty-four hours earlier, police said. His colleagues’ first...

The voice of journalismAugust 4, 2020Editor’s Note: This is the second of our four pieces on this network. In December 2019, we first established the distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points. In October 2021, we found that the network had as well as.&nbsp;Figure 1: The organizational structure of the networkFigure 2: A single algorithmically generated story with different stock photography that appeared across over 850 domains&nbsp;Evolution and Sprawl of the Network in 2020&nbsp;Figure 3: Metric Media and LGIS # sites per statetheFigure 4: Different page ownerships...

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As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size

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