SELLING LIES
5x BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORTDOC LA | Santa Barbara International Film Festival | San Luis Obispo International Film Festival | Dumbo Film Festival | Ridgefield Independent Film Festival “The short, brilliant & scary doc… goes deep inside the Macedonian fake news industry and shows the truth behind the lies — and the impact it had on America. Very important!” - Walter Isaacson, Professor of American History and Values | Tulane University Journalism + Misinformation • Political Science • Technology + Society • American Politics • International Studies • Democracy Date of Completion: 2019 | Run Time: 31 minutes | Language: English & Macedonian with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director & Producer: Leslie Iwerks In 2016, an army of teenagers in Macedonia discovered a wildly lucrative game of posting false political clickbait news articles on Facebook for profit. By creating websites leading up to the presidential election that published sensati