This team effort with Tyee founder David Beers and I dug into an ad with fake news about Jagmeet Singh that popped up on many websites.

The trail led to a dark world of clickbait networks that act as a trojan horse for fake news on legitimate sites.

Read about it here.

Read CBC coverage of our original report here.

And Maclean’s coverage here.

And a follow up we did digging further into ad network “Taboola” and “Attorney Cocktail”,  Site that Lied about NDP Leader During Election Lives in Web’s Shadows.