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Saturday, June 22, 2019
How I spot scrape blogs and scraped news traps
Someone like Dr. Mercola or "associated" with another name or an institution.
Text has no reference footnotes, but hyperlinks to explanation of most basic concepts, mouseover - same site, or another associate advertising site.
General reference to sensationalized names of materials, findings, fears.
Text broken up by ads, which have wording similar to the text.
The end of the text is too far on the bottom.
The end of paragraphs has contextually related click bait lists, also heavily on the concern side.
The end of the "article" has a battery of thumbnails to other sites, click bait, no other reason to be on the page.
When googled, the headline or a paragraph turns up on another site, with the same non-scientific name, but official enough to impress the consumers of the concern topic. Excatly why it's called a scrape blog.
The name of the site is smoke and mirrors, like the shopping baggie fear (chemicals in shopping bags migrating into food therein) :
Medicalnewsdaily
BuzzFeed, buzznews
Healthviewmedia
Lancetworld etc (piggy back on the lancet's name)
Greenworldhere
Mindbodygreen
Enviroreports etc
Nutrigreenweb
Nutritionletter
all have .net or .com, or
Mayoclin.**
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