Here is your Forbes daily briefing for Tuesday August 27th.

Today on Forbes, the foreign pro-Trump fake news industry has pivoted to American patriotism.

The idea of America is big business on Facebook.

The social network has hosted more than 100 pages that have adopted American patriotism as a theme, boasting names like

Proud American, Proud to Be an American, American story, and We Are America.

But a large swath of those pages, despite their names,

aren't American at all.

Instead, they're run by foreign click farmers,

many of whom are based in Macedonia, who use AI to pump out a near endless ocean of

click-bady soup. Post sharing prayers for American soldiers, rewritten tweets,

memes, and pictures of old Hollywood pin-up girls link out to AI-generated

articles against which the click farmers can sell advertising. Headlines like, quote, dedicated firefighters risk their lives to save others, and, quote,

a father's heroism, the tragic story of Phil Delegrazi and his son Anthony.

Tees short, un-informed of articles

on websites plastered with often sexual advertisements.

The pages promoting them fake Americanness

because they get paid every time someone clicks on one of their links,

and in the advertising world, American clicks are some of the most valuable.

A Forbes review identified 67 Facebook pages, now taken down, that identified themselves as

champions of American news, culture, or identity, but were actually based overseas.

As of August 20th, they had more than 9 million followers combined,

more than the Facebook pages of the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post.

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