The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
- Karen Hao
A Facebook Live video showed hundreds of people protesting against the military coup on the streets of Myanmar.
It had nearly 50,000 shares and over 1.5 million views, in a country with a little over 54 million people.
Observers, unable to see the events on the ground, used the footage, along with hundreds of other live feeds, to track and document the…