There is a lot of confusion in the world right now regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and the vaccines.
A lot of that confusion is down to two major factors:
- Lack of awareness of how specific things work.
And…
- Unscrupulous and downright dangerous people acting on that lack of awareness.
There are a lot of people who make a lot of money by simply sharing harmful and dangerous ‘shit’.
Right-wing nut jobs like Alex Jones feed into people’s paranoia and fears and they build businesses off the back of the ‘them and us’ mentality which prevails through most of mankind.
Recently a woman claiming to be a Dr was reported to be making a lot of money by publishing anti-vax videos.
Those people who have a mistrust of the government and believe that there is a conspiracy going on behind the scenes began to share her videos over social media.
Because she claimed to be a ‘doctor’ these ‘nut jobs’ saw her as some kind of hero ‘whistleblower’ who was ‘outing’ the genocidal plans of a ruling elite.
Her videos were going viral. People were sharing them across all platforms and going to YouTube to watch more of their ‘saviour’.
Here’s the thing that most of the ‘tin foil hat wearing brigade’ have not realised…
Most of these people are simply doing it to make money.
It’s no different to Billy Graham and the other famous American evangelical preachers who packed out stadiums and large venues and amassed a lot of wealth by sharing a message that, if I dare say it, many weak minded people wanted to hear.
In the 1970’s and 1980’s, people paid out of their own pocket to listen to these preachers, today it works slightly differently.
Today, thanks to free social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, the videos and messages of today’s charlatans are shared far and wide for free.
Tens of thousands, sometimes millions of people watch videos on YouTube and they read articles on websites all of which show advertising.
With millions of people reading anti-vaccine articles and watching misinforming videos, adverts are getting millions of impressions.
Advertising networks such as Google, Mediavine and many others pay the content creator/website owner a share of the revenue generated when adverts are shown.
We know this to be true because we have done this ourselves with various websites that we own.
Our techy guy Andi had a lot of success in the past generating advertising revenue from creating and sharing fun and satirical news articles.
With a lot of those articles being satire, they were simply made up. They were fictious.
Because they were satire and the way they were written… you could clearly see that they were not real.
Well… most people could, some people still shouted ‘fake news’ in the comments section under the posts on Facebook to stop people from believing them.
And that’s the problem… people do believe any old guff!
There are people who do purposely share fake and false news which reads like a real report just to make money, Jestin Coler being one of them.
During the 2016 US elections Jestin started sharing satirical news style stories on a website he set up mimicking an official news website.
His content became so popular that he began to make a lot of money and eventually he set up several sites and drafted in several friends to help him write the articles.
All of his websites had a disclaimer on them stating that the content was satirical in nature and not in any way factual… did anyone pay attention?
No… far from it.
As more and more people began to believe and share his satirical news stories, Jestin and his friends started to push the boundaries and write articles which were ridiculously farfetched and less funny.
Many of them were pretty dark.
One such article reported that the CIA or FBI had burned down a house killing a person who had supposedly leaked Hilary Clinton’s emails.
That article had conspiracy and far-right nut jobs sharing it on the socials stating that they ‘were right and that the CIA or FBI will kill those who seek the truth’… and all of that kind of guff.
A lot of Jestin’s material went viral sending thousands of people to his websites where he made a stack of money from showing adverts.
At the peak of the election Jestin’s sites were making around $30,000 per month.
You read that right… $30,000 per month!
Jestin became known as…
The king of Fake News
To put it bluntly… Jestin and his friends were making bucket loads of cash selling bulls*** to anyone gullible enough to believe it… even when his websites clearly stated that it was satire and nothing was true.
Does he feel bad for it?
He says not.
It helped to buy him a house and set his family up for the future. He says that he only published the kind of stuff that certain people wanted to read.
He puts the blame squarely on the reader’s shoulders.
It’s their fault for being dumb enough to believe what was written and for not being able to figure out that what they were reading was ludicrously farfetched and not real.
After all, it did say on the website in a small box that none of it was real… but they missed that.
So, you could say that the ‘sheeple’ shouters didn’t do their ‘research’ after all.
The problem is that creating this type of content and publishing it can cause a lot of harm and damage to society.
Many families have been torn apart when loved ones have gone too far down the ‘Deep State’, ‘Qanon’, ‘Anit-vaxx’ and other conspiracy rabbit holes.
Quite a lot of people have died from Covid because they have chosen to not have the vaccines based on misinformation shared by people who are doing nothing more than sitting at home making money by creating and sharing content which follows a specific narrative.
And that is where the problem lies…. the majority of the public do not understand or realise that people will share any old crap if it makes them money.
Newspapers have been doing it for years.
Yet people believe that newspapers are honest organisations set up to share the ‘truth’.
But they are not; they are media businesses whose main focus is making a profit.
I’m not saying that they are corrupt or constantly print untruths but…
Newspapers do not have any moral or ethical obligation to share information which is correct or right.
Legally yes… morally or ethically… no.
Newspapers make money by selling ‘stories’ to people which are ‘new’ – ever wondered where the word ‘news’ comes from – so they can show them advertising which they have already been paid for.
Big companies pay large amounts of money to newspapers that have a large readership to have their adverts placed within their pages.
To maintain a big readership; those papers will print sensational – and often questionable – stories.
Put it this way…
If people stop buying a certain newspaper, it will stop being published.
The owners will not bust a gut to find a way to keep publishing it so that they can inform the public of the ‘truth’. They are not bothered about the ‘true state of the nation’.
They are not concerned with fighting for a better world; they are concerned with making money.
That is what most of the human race has failed to understand.
And unfortunately… that lack of awareness seems to have worsened with millions of people now blindly following all kinds of chumps online.
I personally cannot say whether David Icke is wrong, maybe the Queen is a shape-shifting, blood drinking reptilian humanoid alien from Draco… but I somehow doubt it.
What is interesting though, is how sure they are of the things they say. These conspiracy theorists believe they are right… or do they?
While they have websites which show adverts around their content, videos on YouTube drenched in Google ads (Google is now actively removing adverts from videos which they believe share misinformation) and are selling books and merchandise… they will declare that they are right.
Why?
Because it’s good for business!
There is a lot of cash to be made from chaos and conspiracy.
I’m not saying that you should consider this as a way for you to make money… but it is a profitable one.
If you are considering writing and sharing information as a way to make money… I would recommend that you focus on using email and share information which is actually useful to people.
Writing emails do not have to take too long and can be done anywhere at any time of the day using a smartphone or tablet.
To learn more, go to:
The Email Secret
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PS… Using email means that you can make money wherever you are in the world.
The world is changing, so is the technology.
There is no need today to stay in one location to earn money. You can take your tablet with you wherever you go and make money.
Here’s that link again: