Recent investigations have revealed that several conservative pages, articles and websites that were spread through Facebook were created by teenagers in Veles, Macedonia during this election season.

The stories that were written supported false information regarding conservatives, especially Donald Trump, such as the Pope supporting Donald Trump. Veles, a town in Macedonia of 55,000, has been the central hub of false information, and was mimicked by Americans in the United States as well.

A digital gold rush, the town ended up making over 140 political websites. One anonymous  teenager said that he got 685,000 views within a week, based on Google Analytics. He said, “You have to write what people want to see, not what you want to show.” This tactic grew during this election season largely due to Facebook’s ability to provide an audience, Google’s ability to monetize nearly any website, and this election’s passions of rage. Exaggerations and lies are actually incentivized on these sites.

Some say Facebook should start censoring hoax or fake news sites, but determining the reliability of a news story has become an issue. The editors of Facebook’s trending page were ignoring “trending topics” linking to conservative stories. After they were fired, conservatives started popping up on the trending page.

Billions of people use Facebook making hundreds and millions of links on the site every day. The company hires rooms of Filipino moderators to review flagged images and posts. The type of resources it would take to start moderating links for accuracy, would have limited success.