Meet the fake news trolls who influenced US and Indonesian polls for money

They have popped up in election campaigns from the United States to Malaysia to Indonesia. A small town in Europe was even dubbed the world’s fake news capital.

In 2016, more than 100 pro-Donald Trump websites were being run from one town in Macedonia.

VELES, Macedonia: His business card states, “The man who helped Donald Trump win US elections”, and Mr Mirko Ceselkoski is eager to read it out, saying: “It’s so funny that I became famous because of this.”

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