• Craig Silverman, media editor for BuzzFeed News, delivers this year’s Atkinson lecture on fake news at the Ryerson School of Journalism. Photo courtesy of Jasmine Bala.

    BuzzFeed media editor: Most fake news creators are financially driven

    By Jasmine Bala for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre Most fake news creators are doing it for the money rather than for ideological reasons, a leading authority on fake news and verification said at the annual Ryerson School of Journalism Atkinson lecture. Craig Silverman, the media editor for BuzzFeed News, said two Canadian teenagers who…